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quang vo Participant Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4	Paper 12/11/2007 3:04 AM
	How to tell the paper string is recycled or virgin?
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#1 Re: Paper 12/11/2007 3:40 AM
	Everything is recycled. It's only a question of defining the timescale. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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gigaconcept.com Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 632 Good Answers: 11	#2 Re: Paper 12/11/2007 11:21 PM
	Look for that, it is a recycling byproduct: __________________ ''What the hell has my a** got to do with magic?" Don Quixote
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vermin Guru Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 5356 Good Answers: 50	#3 Re: Paper 12/12/2007 1:48 AM
	Tickle it. If it blushes and giggles, chances are it's virgin. __________________ "Perplexity is the beginning of dementia" - Professor Coriolus
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Hendrik Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Centurion, South Africa Posts: 3921 Good Answers: 97	#4 Re: Paper 12/12/2007 10:16 AM
	I am satisfied with the paper I have been using and won't even worry if it does contain some recycled material. According to a recycle Fundy the process of cleaning the ink and traces of plaster of Paris is to costly to produce 100% recycled paper. On one of the packs I have is a note that it contains material from a managed other source. Classification of strings. A-string = pure B-string = not so pure . . H -string = filthy __________________ Never do today what you can put of until tomorrow - Student motto
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Milo Guru Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: "Dancing over the abyss." Posts: 4884 Good Answers: 243	#5 Re: Paper 12/12/2007 10:28 AM
	Quang Yo, In my experience, the length of fibers (fibres) will be shorter in recycled(reprocessed) materials due to the effects of processing. I won a very expensive ruthenium plated pen from Tiffany's once by selecting the recycled sample of newsprint out of a tablet of virgin newsprint. it was clear to see- the *virgin* newsprint had much larger "chunks" or grains /fiber structure of inclusion material. The recycled, having been processed additional times, had no large "goobers" they had been digested in the multiple steps. This same reasoning should apply to paper string, look at fiber length. Virgin material should have longest fibers, recycled, on average, much shorter. If you use 30 samples your average will be statistically valid use student -t test for significance between averages. milo __________________ People say between two opposed opinions the truth lies in the middle. Not at all! Between them lies the problem, what is unseeable,eternally active life, contemplated in repose. Goethe
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