wood flour
[′wu̇d ′flau̇r]
(materials)
Dried wood ground to a very fine powder and used in plastic wood, in molding of certain plastics, as an extender in some glues, and inmetal-casting operations.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
wood flour
A finely ground, dried wood powder; used in the molding of plastics, in plastic wood, and as an extender in some glues.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Wood Flour
a fine loose product obtained by the dry mechanical grinding of wood shavings. The size of the particles is determined by sieve analysis andvaries from 150 to 420 (the number corresponds to the aperture size of the sorting sieve in microns). Its moisture content does not exceed 8percent.
Wood flour is used in explosives, phenolic plastic, linoleum, xylolith, and other building materials, as well as in the production of titaniumdioxide and in the furniture industry. It is also used as a grinding and polishing material. Wood flour produced in impact mills, millstone mills,and in pendulum-roller mills and is graded in screening machines or in air separators.
- Bakelite
- Linoleum
- Plastics
- Filler for wood glue
- Plywood manufacture
Did you know that there have been a number of innovative uses of wood flour proposed. As early as 1960 a number of uses for wood flour were identified by researchers. These included use in medical dressings, wallpaper coating, powder fuel, and battery filler. Because of the consistent particle size and moisture in wood flour there are many uses that are still being discovered.
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