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 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