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Bacterial retting of non-woody bast fibers for papermaking

✍ Scribed by K. Yoshihara; Y. Kobayashi


Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
215 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0141-5492

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✦ Synopsis


Non-woody fibers such as from Mitsumata (Edgeworthia papyrifera Sieb et Zucc.) bast were successfully macerated with an alkalophi!ic Bacillus. This made it possible to prepare pulp sheets without fibrillization by beating. Physical qualities of sheets obtained by alkaline retting compared favorably with those produced by the chemical pulping method now in use.