Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry

Bamboo, Considered as a Paper-making Material With remarks upon its cultivation and treatment. Supplemented by a consideration of the present position of the paper trade in relation to the supply of raw material.

Routledge, Thomas, 1819-1887· 3 chapters· 8,673 words

Of all the fibre-yielding plants known to botanical science there is not one so well calculated to meet the pressing requirements of the Paper-trade as "BAMBOO," both as regards facility and economy of production, as well as the quality of the "_Paper-Stock_" which can be manu...

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1. Part 1

Of all the fibre-yielding plants known to botanical science there is not one so well calculated to meet the pressing requirements of the Paper-trade as "BAMBOO," both as regards...

2. Part 2

The complete exhaustion of the plant is proceeding very rapidly in Spain; and as it is estimated by the best informed authorities that it will take, even with the greatest care...

3. Part 3

It therefore would have been more correct had I, in directing attention to "BAMBOO," described it as an "_Old material_" under "_New treatment_." Such indeed was the case with "...