Old School Science: The Formulator's Field Manual

This is Book One of the OSS Formulation Academy - a separate, follow-on series to the Coatings Industry Training Series, not a rebrand of it. It assumes you've already read the original eight books, or that you're working this job with the equivalent real-world experience, and that you've got a year or more of hands-on time behind you. "OSS" stands for Old School Science: the accumulated, mostly unwritten judgment experienced formulators develop and rarely get around to writing down. This book covers six specific kinds of judgment calls at introductory depth - enough to start using Monday morning - and each one gets its own full deep-dive volume later in the series. Boxed asides and "From Experience" callouts flag the material worth re-reading before you're standing at the bench trying to remember it. The Glossary and Quick Reference at the back are built for exactly that moment