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lacquer

Or lacquered materials: finishing materials used for painting (finishing) furniture. Units are painted with varnishes and lacquers of various kinds, generally made from synthetic resins. There are many possible combinations and a vast range of aesthetic effects can be obtained.

laminate

Laminate is a phenol or melamine finish normally applied to wood-based board such as wooden particle boards or MDF boards. It has excellent technical characteristics and is tough and easy to keep clean. In common usage it is often described as "formica"; it consists of a series of sheets of resin glued together to create a thickness of about 0.6 mm. Nowadays, the leading kitchen producers use HPL, or high pressure laminate, a material compliant with EN 438/1 standards, with excellent water-repellence, stability and resistance properties.

latex

a whitish viscous liquid, containing large amounts of rubber, fats, waxes and resin, found in many trees, from which it is collected by cutting the bark

luminous efficiency

The ratio between the amount of light emitted (measured in lumens) and the electrical power (in Watts); it represents the amount of electricity which is transformed into light.

lycopene

Better known as the substance that gives tomatoes their colour, in chemical terms it is a hydrocarbon with forty carbon atoms, in the carotene class