I believe both Finesse-It and Perfect-It are 3M products that use Trizact particles as the polish's abrasive. (AFAIK All polishes use micro-abrasives to polish the ball.)

If the "ceramic" (probably cerium oxide) particles got "stuck" in the resin, they'll add grip, not skid. It's kind of like making your own particle ball. However, I wonder if any of the cerium oxide particles or any of the particles in any polish on the market "get stuck in the resin".

I can't say for sure, unless I can find the issue that mentioned it and see exactly what it said.

As for Finesse-it using trizact, well maybe now.

But afaik Finesse-it and what I read was  before trizact even came out. So maybe back when that was wrote, it had something different in it.

According to the msds for finesse-it it's using Aluminum Oxide, but the old bottle I have sitting on my shelf says quartz on it.

The whole point I was making though was, that maybe that PSO seen the same article or quote I did and that's where the idea org. came from.

Oh another thought maybe he referring to"Burning" in the polish and just said embed instead of burn.

Possibly that could be what he meant.

Applying polish (meant to smooth the surface of a ball) using an abrasive as the medium seems contradictory in the extreme. My example above, of applying car wax with sandpaper, is an illustration that gives some indication of what I mean. It just makes zero sense to me.