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Wood Products
How Wood is Processed
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Paper

Different kinds of paper are made in different ways. For example, you make writing paper differently than you make cardboard boxes.

However, paper is generally made in the same way. What you basically do is break down wood into very, very small particles and make a mat of these particles.

When you look at paper through a microscope, it looks something like this:

Of course, making paper is a little more complicated than that...

The paper-making process

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