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  • Thumbnail for Pulp (paper)
    semi-chemically or mechanically producing cellulosic fibers from wood, fiber crops, waste paper, or rags. Mixed with water and other chemicals or plant-based...
    38 KB (4,254 words) - 22:23, 14 August 2024
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    Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, herbivore dung, or...
    43 KB (4,687 words) - 20:58, 21 November 2024
  • Wood-free paper is paper created exclusively from chemical pulp rather than mechanical pulp. Chemical pulp is normally made from pulpwood, but is not considered...
    65 KB (7,653 words) - 18:17, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pulp and paper industry
    The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based...
    16 KB (1,276 words) - 00:43, 5 November 2024
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    replaced animal-skin-based parchment and wood panels. By the 13th century, papermaking was refined with paper mills using waterwheels in Spain. Later improvements...
    80 KB (10,267 words) - 19:22, 31 October 2024
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    and paper. Known constructions using wood date back ten thousand years. Buildings like the longhouses in Neolithic Europe were made primarily of wood. Recent...
    94 KB (8,949 words) - 14:50, 13 November 2024
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    due to the cell structure of the wood. Paper backed veneer is as the name suggests, veneers that are backed with paper. The advantage to this is it is...
    7 KB (949 words) - 05:42, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flowering plant
    Other families provide important industrial plant products such as wood, paper and cotton, and supply numerous ingredients for beverages, sugar production...
    80 KB (6,327 words) - 22:20, 19 November 2024
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    of the lignin present originally in the wood. Low lignin is important to the resulting strength of the paper, as the hydrophobic nature of lignin interferes...
    8 KB (936 words) - 18:58, 15 November 2024
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    A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients. Prior to the invention and...
    23 KB (2,767 words) - 00:39, 14 March 2024
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    filaments) produced especially on living plants or organic matter such as wood, paper or leather. Both mold and mildew produce distinct offensive odours, and...
    7 KB (871 words) - 16:02, 26 August 2024
  • or collected during the milling of lumber. Wood fibres can also be recycled from used paper materials. Wood fibres are treated by combining them with other...
    6 KB (688 words) - 22:15, 9 October 2024
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    Polyvinyl acetate (category Wood finishing materials)
    the US, is a widely available adhesive used for porous materials like wood, paper, and cloth. An aliphatic rubbery synthetic polymer with the formula (C4H6O2)n...
    10 KB (962 words) - 08:20, 25 September 2024
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    important species for moose browsing. Primary commercial uses for paper birch wood are as boltwood and sawlogs, while secondary products include firewood...
    24 KB (2,968 words) - 14:11, 17 April 2024
  • Tree-free paper, also known as no tree paper, offers an alternative to traditional wood-pulp paper due to its unique raw material composition. This type...
    12 KB (1,491 words) - 07:51, 27 August 2024
  • The Paper, Wood and Allied Workers' Union (PWAWU) was a trade union representing workers in various related industries in South Africa. The union was...
    2 KB (258 words) - 07:58, 16 January 2023
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    Hemp (section Paper)
    from wood paper manufacturing. Hemp paper can be recycled up to 8 times, compared to just 3 times for paper made from wood pulp. Compared to its wood pulp...
    138 KB (14,337 words) - 00:42, 28 October 2024
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    Paper size standards govern the size of sheets of paper used as writing paper, stationery, cards, and for some printed documents. The ISO 216 standard...
    101 KB (7,884 words) - 15:34, 6 November 2024
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    material, mainly wood pulp, small particles are visible on the paper's surface. It is used for projects or crafts. The etymology of "sugar paper" lies in its...
    4 KB (437 words) - 14:24, 16 June 2024
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    main material for manila paper. Before the end of the 20th century,[when?] papermakers replaced the abacá fibers with wood pulp, which cost less to source...
    10 KB (984 words) - 04:58, 25 October 2024
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