ZACATOIST AS
A PAPER-MAKING MATERIAL.
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tion of the plant-cellulose fibers, while the second division concerns the physical treatment and formation of these fibers into the finished sheet.
The separation and investigated
Fig.
9.—Zacaton
first,
purification of the cellulose fibers
and should be brought
is
necessarily
to as satisfactory a con-
hillside near Quezaltenango, grass claiming a formerly cultivated field on a terraced
Guatemala.
elusion as possible before actual paper
making
is
considered.
This
m most accurately and produced the laboratory, where conditions can be
investigation
Fiber separation or production is effected commercially process, by one of the four following processes: The mechanical
controlled.
by
is
advantageously, almost necessarily, pursued
