Paper

Various paper products: a book, toilet paper, ruled paper, carton, and an egg box.

Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying. Although paper was originally made in single sheets by hand, almost all is now made on large machines

Uses

It is a versatile material with many uses, including printing, painting, graphics, signage, design, packaging, decorating, writing, and cleaning. It may also be used as filter paper, wallpaper, book endpaper, conservation paper, laminated worktops, toilet tissue, or currency and security paper, or in a number of industrial and construction processes.

Dependencies

• Grasses
• Water
• Wood
  • Paper
    • Matches
    • Scrap paper
    • Twine

See also

• Ceramic
• Concrete
• Fiberglass
• Glass
• Plastic
• Sandpaper
• Sugar
• Processed materials

References

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Paper, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors).

External links

• Synthetic paper, Wikipedia