wood pulp
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3.0
- noun
- /wʊd pʌlp/
- Specialized
:
pulpa de madera
- Wood pulp paper was much cheaper and easier to produce than the rag paper that preceded it, but it was also less durable.
- made from wood pulp
- wood pulp paper
- products made from wood pulp
This is the vanity code made from wood pulp and cotton fibers.
- This is the vanity code made from wood pulp and cotton fibers.
Examples
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By contrast, the price of a product such as wood pulp (the key input for paper) remained basically constant despite growing Chinese demand during the same 10-year period.
Academic text (2013) -
Printed on paper made from wood pulp, a technology introduced to the United States in 1866, the photograph evokes the sacrifice of California's forests to the lumber industry.
Academic text (2004) -
Similarly, the demand for paper is being met by recycled paper fiber, thus reducing the need for new wood pulp.
Academic text (1995) -
Do publishers sell wood pulp, ink, and glue?
Blog text (28) -
Assume for the moment that there is a continuing demand for a greater and greater quantity of newsprint for reprocessing into a substitute for new wood pulp.
Academic text (1991) -
These chemicals are sometimes present in trace amounts in tampons and pads as a by-product of cotton and wood pulp bleaching.
Academic text (2014) -
Not only would they not have been "preserved in museums," but the turn to wood-pulp paper and the acids used in its production, coupled with their cheap bindings, made them uniquely fragile, literally consumed by the toxic chemicals used.
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Most former plantations are now planted with trees cultivated for wood pulp or with African oil palms, one of the few tropical crops relatively undamaged by copper toxicity.
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Wood pulp is the main ingredient used in the production of high-quality wood pulp.
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The factory produces enormous quantities of wood pulp for various types of paper products.
Synonyms
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3.9
A soft wet mass of crushed material often used to make paper
Wood pulp made by machines grinding logs or chips for making paper
How Processed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'pulp' denotes a moist fibrous mass and 'wood' names the source material, so a learner who knows both words can infer it means pulp made from wood (used for paper). This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistically transparent formation, so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Wood pulp comes from the paper-making process: wood is ground or soaked until it becomes a soft, wet mass called pulp, and that mass is used to make 'paper'. So, wood pulp today means the soft material made from wood for making 'paper'.