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wood pulp

noun as in ground material from wood

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Her team used cellulose from wood pulp, but could have used fruit peels or cotton fibers left over from textile production.

The shipping crisis has threatened to disrupt the transportation of wood pulp — the raw material for products like toilet paper — which is shipped out from South America.

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The product, invented by the American paper company Kimberly-Clark in 1914, was made out of wood pulp, making cellu-cotton many times more absorbent than regular cotton bandages.

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Imitation extract is made primarily of an artificial flavoring called vanillin, which is essentially wood pulp with the flavor of vanilla extracted from it.

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Tencel is made from the wood pulp of eucalyptus and is an environmentally friendly option.

A Frenchman has discovered a process, la soyeuse, of making spruce wood pulp into a substitute for cotton.

Barks, as for tanning or dyeing, seeds and gums, and the wood pulp for paper are on exhibition.

It is the wood-pulp industry which is at present destroying the Canadian forests.

The latter methods are at present almost exclusively used for the preparation of chemical wood pulp.

This material has qualities which cannot readily be obtained from other fibres, such as rag and wood pulp.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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