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wood pulp
noun
- wood reduced to pulp through mechanical and chemical treatment for use in the manufacture of certain kinds of paper.
wood pulp
noun
- wood that has been ground to a fine pulp for use in making newsprint and other cheap forms of paper, and in the production of hardboard
- finely pulped wood that has been digested by a chemical, such as caustic soda, and sometimes bleached: used in making paper
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wood pulp1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
A Frenchman has discovered a process, la soyeuse, of making spruce wood pulp into a substitute for cotton.
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Barks, as for tanning or dyeing, seeds and gums, and the wood pulp for paper are on exhibition.
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It is the wood-pulp industry which is at present destroying the Canadian forests.
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The latter methods are at present almost exclusively used for the preparation of chemical wood pulp.
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This material has qualities which cannot readily be obtained from other fibres, such as rag and wood pulp.
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