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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Our material chosen is Paper, one of the most commonly used material on earth, have a history dated back till early china. The problems with paper are : they tear easily when soaked, they cannot be written easily on using gel pen on the coating.


Heres our Biology book, having a small coating which dosent repel water that much and allows some gel pen using. The purpose is to prevent the paper to yellow.
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Heres the section i am going to use to show what i mean.
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Added water onto the paper to show it adsorbs and is going to be easily torn.
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The drop of water due to the small layer of coating.
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Wipe off the excess.
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A small mark is left behind. This is less than the normal non-coated paper as the coating somehow prevents the water from getting adsorbed. It also prevents oxygen from being adsorbed by the paper to turn yellow. This is due to Lignin. Lignin is in trees and turns yellow over time when exposed to oxygen.
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This is another problem.
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When using gel pen on the coating, it dosent get adsorbed as quickly and results in this.
Smudging.
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imprinted his world on;
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