Paper - meaning of word
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Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres. The fibers used are usually natural and based upon cellulose. The most common material is wood pulp from pulpwood (largely softwood) trees such as spruces, but other fiber crop materials including cotton, linen, and hemp may be used. A stack of 500 sheets of paper is called a ream. The edges of paper sheets can act as very thin, fine-toothed saws, leading to paper cuts. ==Manufacture== Whether done by hand or with a Fourdrinier Machine, the paper making process has four simple steps: ===Preparation of the fibres=== The material to be used for making paper is first converted into pulp, a concentrated mixture of fibers suspended in liquid. As many of these fibres are derived from natural sources, this process often requires many stages of separation and washing. Once the fibers have been extracted, they may also be bleached or dyed to alter the appearance of the final product. ===Forming into sheets=== The pulp mixture is then further diluted with water resulting in a very thin slurry. This dilute slurry is drained through a fine-mesh moving screen to form a fibrous web. A watermark may be impressed into the paper at this stage of the process. This moving web is pressed and dried into a continuous sheet of paper. In the case of the mould process, a quantity of the pulp is placed into a form, with a wire-mesh base (or other draining device), so that the fibres are left coated on the mesh and excess water can drain away. At this time, pressure may be applied to remove more water through a squeezing action. The paper may then be removed from the mould, wet or dry, and go on to further processing. Most mass-produced paper is made using a continuous (Fourdrinier) process to form a reel or web. When dried, this continuous web may be cut into rectangular sheets by slitting the web vertically and then cutting it horizontally to the desired length. Paper size are prescribed by governing bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ===Further additives=== Raw paper that contains only pressed and dried pulp is very absorbent (for example, blotting paper), and does not provide a good surface upon which to write or print. Thus, a huge variety of additives are employed to add desired properties to the paper. These are applied in a coating called the size. Sizing agents are often polymers designed to provide a better printing surface. Starches are very commonly used, as is polyvinyl acetate (PVA), but there are as many types of polymer employed as there are types of paper. Coatings can also be applied to the surface of paper to improve the printing surface by making it smoother. The texture of raw paper is rough, and so to achieve greater smoothness, coatings consisting of latex or other binders and fillers such as kaolin or calcium carbonate are used. Glossy, silk or matte finish papers such as magazine paper (for the inside pages) are made in this way. Additionally glossy or textured surfaces can be applied using a process called calendering, in which the fresh rolled paper is run through an additional series of rollers to imprint the desired texture. The glossy effect (for example on the covers of fashion magazines) is achieved at the end of the printing process, by adding a clear layer (like varnish) over the printing, and so is not a property of the paper. Other additives are employed to enhance various properties of the paper, the most common of which are optical brighteners used to give paper a bluer shade. "Granite paper" is a term for paper stock embedded with extremely fine colored fibers of either cloth or paper. ===Drying=== The paper may actually be dried several times during its manufacture (dry paper is much stronger than wet, so it is best to keep the paper dry to prevent it breaking and stopping the production line). [[Image:InternationalPaper6413.JPG|300px|thumb|right|International Paper Company: kraft paper mill, located in Georgetown, South Carolina]] ==Applications== *to write or print on: the piece of paper becomes a document; this may be for keeping a record (or in the case of printing from a computer or copying from another paper: an additional record) and for communication; see also Reading (activity). Also a paper may represent a value: **paper money **bank note **check (finance) **security **voucher **ticket :In such cases making a copy that can not easily be distinguished from the original should be very difficult, to avoid abuse, see counterfeit. :Official documents and private statements that are run through a computer are placed in individual letters by a "bursting machine" (right). :Printed papers can be bound etc. to form a book, brochure, magazine, newspaper, etc.; a dysphemism for such an edition is ''"dead tree edition"'', as opposed to alternatives such as a file on hard disk (locally or accessed remotely through internet), CD-ROM, diskette, etc. :A computer file can be converted to a paper document by printing, using a computer printer. The converse can be done by Scanner (computing), possibly followed by Optical character recognition (OCR). *for packaging: **envelope **wrapping tissue **wallpaper *for cleaning (see also tissue, Kleenex): **toilet paper **handkerchiefs **paper towels **cat litter **miscellaneous cleaning in the kitchen, etc. *for construction **papier-mâché **origami ==History== The word ''paper'' comes from ancient Egypt writing material called papyrus, which was woven from Cyperus papyrus. It was produced as early as 3000 BC Egypt, and then in ancient Greece and Rome. Further north, parchment or vellum, made of processed sheepskin or calfskin, replaced papyrus which requires subtropical conditions for growth. In China, documents were ordinarily written on bamboo, making them very heavy and awkward to transport. Silk was sometimes used, but was usually too expensive to consider. Most of the above materials were rare and costly. The Chinese court official Cai Lun described the modern method of papermaking in AD 105; he was the first person who mentioned the method to make paper out of cotton rags. Other sources date back the invention of papermaking in China to 150 BC. It spread slowly outside of China; other East Asian cultures, even after seeing paper, could not figure out how to make it themselves; instruction in the manufacturing process was required, and the Chinese were reluctant to share their secrets. The technology was firstly transferred to Korea in 600 and then imparted to Japan by Korean Buddhist priest, Dam Jing, in 625, where fibres (called ''bast'') from the mulberry tree were used. After commercial trades and the defeat of the Chinese in the Battle of Talas, the invention spread to the Middle East, where it was adopted by the Indians and subsequently by the Italy in about the 13th century. They used hemp and linen rags. Some historians speculate that paper was the key element in global cultural advancement. According to this theory, Chinese culture was less developed than the West's in ancient times because bamboo (although abundance of materials is generally the primary reason for the use of bamboo as opposed to scientific prowess) was a clumsier writing material than papyrus; Chinese culture advanced during the Han Dynasty and preceding centuries due to the invention of paper; and Europe advanced during the Renaissance due to the introduction of paper and the printing press. Paper remained a luxury item through the centuries, until the advent of steam-driven paper making machines in the 19th century, which could make paper with fibres from wood pulp. Although older machines predated it, the Fourdrinier Machine paper making machine became the basis for most modern papermaking. Together with the invention of the practical fountain pen and the mass produced pencil of the same period, and in conjunction with the advent of the steam driven rotary printing press, wood based paper caused a major transformation of the 19th century economy and society in industrialized countries. Before this era a book or a newspaper was a rare luxury object and illiteracy was the norm for the majority. With the gradual introduction of cheap paper, schoolbooks, fiction, non-fiction, and newspapers became slowly available to nearly all the members of an industrial society. Cheap wood based paper also meant that keeping personal diaries or writing letters ceased to be reserved to a privileged few in those same societies. The office worker or the white-collar worker was slowly born of this transformation, which can be considered as a part of the industrial revolution. Unfortunately, the original wood-based paper was more acidic and more prone to disintegrate over time. Documents written on more expensive rag paper were more stable. The majority of modern book publishers now use acid-free paper. ==See also== *newspaper *cardboard *crêpe *ISO 216 *newsprint *paper sizes *paper mill *paper recycling *pulp and paper industry *stationery *substrate (printing) *washi ==External links== *[http://earthtrends.wri.org/features/view_feature.cfm?theme=6&fid=19 No End to Paperwork] *[http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/user/dieter.freyer/handpaper/index.php?c=6&lang=en&s= History of Paper and Papermaking] *[http://www.paperonline.org/ Paper Online] *[http://internationalpaper.com/Our%20Company/Learning%20Center/How%20Paper%20Is%20Made.html How Paper Is Made] Materials Stationery Art materials simple:Paper vi:Giấy

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Maybe something should be said about the durability of different types of paper. The paper used in money, for example, is durable thru several machine washings, whereas regular paper is not. This is (I believe) due to the fact that it is made from linen and other long-fibre materials, versus the short fibre wood pulp. But I could be wrong.
-- ~ender 2005-02-27 10:06:MST == Amusing observation == Is it just me, or is the image of 'piece of paper' a candidate for the blandest, most inane and yet subtly hillarious image on all of wikipedia? == POV in the "Conservation" section. == The whole section sounds very POV and unsourced, especially ''Several major Asian producers, for example, with strong connections to their respective Governments and bureaucracy have been systematically stripping rainforest for many years. Often the logs are transhipped to other countries to disguise the damaging trade'' and ''These concerns are not merely side issues but rather display the comprehensive problems that occur when production dominates thinking. As in many problems over the years the mistaken belief is, and has traditionally been, that nature can cope. The short answer now is that nature cannot and increasingly the state of the ecosystems has been rendered such that the position has, and is becoming, terminal.'' User:Joy Stovall 00:57, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC) :Yeah I removed it all. It was all added by User:Vince over a year ago. He has also created such decidedly POV articles as Vested interests and side issue, among others. --brian0918">User:Brian0918™">User talk:Brian0918 17:00, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) == disambiguation page? == I noticed this is a disambiguation page, but I can't see any good reason for that. Have I misunderstood the use of that tag, or should it be removed from this page? User:Whitepaw 21:28, 2005 May 1 (UTC) :There was this notice by the tag: "There should be a page disambiguating Paper (the matterial) and Paper (scientific publication)". Certainly; however, this page does not fulfill that function, and is therefore not a disambig page. I'd definately suggest that it be turned into one, though, and will try to do it when I get the time. - User:Haunti 10:40, 25 May 2005 (UTC) == paper weight == The weight of paper, 20lbs, 24lbs, 68lbs, etc could be discussed. Or is that in another article? 20-24lbs is generally printing paper, 68lbs is cover stock, and 110+lbs is card stock. The story of that weight is- when paper is produced, it is all made into a standard size sheet, no matter what the thickness, and then cut. A full uncut sheet (I'm not sure of the size) will weigh 24lbs, 68lbs, etc. At least, this is what a sales person from Hammermill told me when Hammermill switched machines and tried to change the weights of their papers, creating mass confusion. Can any one refute or confirm this? I think it would be cool to have in the article, but I don't have any sources.

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