Roman Rezinkin
Mrs. Grossman
SCH3U1-03
March 30, 2014
The Chemical Reactions Used To Create Paper
The creation of paper has been around for many centuries. The first traces of paper creation were in China. In those times, they would use bark and vegetation. In today’s world, we use many complex chemical reactions to create paper. In general, there are six steps to create a perfect sheet of paper. After the completing all the steps, we use paper of a daily basis. We use paper for businesses, licenses, educational purposes, money and many other applications. However, to create a perfect piece of paper, many complex steps have to be completed, to ensure that the gathered wood is properly converted into paper.
The history of paper goes back to 105 AD in China. During those times, sheets of paper were created, using tree bark and vegetation. The following era of papermaking continued in the medieval era. In the medieval era they would, use medieval paper was made of diluted cotton, linen fiber. After the medieval era, the Italians were the most influential and impacted the paper making industry. In today’s era, we use chemical reactions to produce our paper along with high-end technology and machines. To sum it up, we can see how the industry of paper making and its history has affected it by becoming one of the biggest industries in the world.
The commonly known term of papermaking is the “Kraft Process”. There are six steps have to be accomplished in order to successfully create a standard size of paper. The steps are as follows, wood preparation, cooking, pulp washing, bleaching and finally paper making. In the first step ‘wood preparation’, the bark collected from forests is removed from logs, which are later...
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...me for the Canadian economy. Therefore, we can see how the forest industry has influenced the Canadian economy and how it has created thousands of jobs all across Canada.
To sum it all up, the process of creating paper pulp has changed drastically over the centuries, starting with using bark to write poems or stories and now is manufactured on a grand scale. The techniques of creating paper has changed throughout time and has gone from diluted cotton and linen fiber to using special and complex chemicals to create many different variations of paper. The industry has brought a lot of wealth to forested countries because the demand for paper is high. With this in mind, we see that the paper industry is a very large industry in the world and that it has affected the society in many positive ways that include more jobs and an increase to a countries economy.
This invention was a change to the Chinese because paper was invented in China around 105 CE. So the Chinese have paper and now it allowed an easy way for people to communicate. It caused a change in their culture because with paper they can now pass down culture easier than before. Before its invention the writing surfaces that were used were, bones, tortoise shells, and bamboo slips. But as the Chinese civilization started to grow they proved to themselves that these writing surfaces won’t work because of the bulk and weight.
Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the movable type printing press changed the world. It changed religion, literature, and geography. He used molds instead of having scribes handwrite books. It helped produce written works at a much faster rate than previously. This made them cheaper, and more affordable to the less fortunate. This increased the literacy rate. Gutenberg’s original printing press was invented in Germany, but quickly spread throughout Europe (Document 2). Gutenberg’s creation is no doubt one of the most useful things we have in today’s world.
The printing press was invented by the well-known Johannes Guttenberg in 1450’s. The idea of the printing press came from the Chinese which introduced Woodblock Printing in 600CE (BackGround Essay). The exploration of the Printing press idea was useful to the reformation of Guttenberg’s idea of the printing press, going from movable wooden types- To metal frames that wouldn’t wear out. The idea of Exploring the Printing press is a major key because without having the exploration of the printing press there would’ve been no reformation of it, to make it better. The purpose of this essay is to tell whether the Exploration or Reformation was the more important consequence.
The most important effect of the printing press was exploration. Christopher Columbus was a person who wanted to travel west from Europe to Asia by proving the world isn’t flat. He sailed west and discovered what was thought to be unknown islands in the Indian Sea, but are now actually islands in the Caribbean. This voyage then proved that the Earth was flat and that there were more unknown lands between Europe and Asia. On his journey back, he wrote a fifteen page letter of his travels. When he got back, he used the printing press to mass produce his adventures and share about his new lands between Europe and Asia.
International Paper Company is the world's largest pulp and paper company with manufacturing operations in North America, Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia and North Africa. When it started out on January 31, 1898 in Albany, New York, it was through the merger of 17 pulp and paper mills ranging in size and technological advancement and capabilities. However, even then International Paper was a leader in the industry as the nation's largest producer of newsprint. It supplied sixty percent of all newsprint sold in the United States at the time, as well as exporting its product to Argentina, Australia, and England.
Birch Paper Company is a medium-sized, vertically integrated paper company, producing white and kraft papers and paperboard. It has four producing divisions and a timberland division which supplied part of the company’s pulp requirement; each division is operating independently headed by its respective division managers.
More than 30,000 tonnes of paper continues to be reaching to lowland in port per annum. Most of this is often large cardboard and lightweight baggage of workplace paper that on the average...
... be less likely to smear the prints. Large objects should be fastened down with string on wood or heavy cardboard (Andrus et al., n.d., para 53). Papers and documents need to be individually placed in a cellophane or manila envelope which needs to be placed in between two sheets of cardboard paper. It can then be placed in a box for mailing.
Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press enabled the mass production of newspapers and books throughout Europe. The “print media played a key role in the acquisition and development of skills that were valuable to merchants” (Dittmar, 1137). The printing press helps individuals obtain knowledge. Trade played a huge role in the spread of printing culture.
Paperclips are an everyday use in today's world. They hold our papers together, when we don’t want to use a stapler that will poke the unwanted holes into our paper. They also keep our papers organized and neat. There are many types of paper clips that were created, but only a few really were the ones. Over the many years, since ancient Eurasia, the clip has made its way through many patents, inventors, machines, and much more. There are many different colors, sizes, forms of paper clips.
Paper in 20th-century civilization, is one of our most important industrial products. Books, magazines, and newspapers are printed on paper. Data from computers are usually printed on paper. Education, government and industry could not operate without printing and writing on paper. Paperboard (used in packaging), and absorbent papers (tissue and towelling) are other widely used paper products.
Human beings are creative species. They have come up with great ideas and invented some wonderful tools since they have been on earth. From the time that someone threw a rock in the ground to make the first tool, to the introduction of the wheel, to the development of electricity and the Internet. These alterations, and many more have been made to provide us the modern life we are living today. There are many inventions that have changed the world dramatically. Historians suggest that the printing press was one of the most revolutionary inventions in the human history. The printing press was invented over five-hundred years ago and was the first step in transforming societal literacy. Around 1440, the printing press was invented by the German Johannes Gutenberg, who was the first to design a technique that has the ability to transform the ink from the movable type to paper. Basic development of the printing press was, the hand mold which is the process that enabled the production of metal movable types. Printing presses with this movable type mechanism increased the rates at which copies of books
The printing press was the invention of moveable metal type paper and was able to print books, newspapers, bibles and much more. It was the start of something new and evolving throughout the entire world. Gutenberg’s creation is known to be the most significant invention in history. It is the most prompted creation that people could ever ask for, and for many extraordinary reasons. The reason why the printing press was so useful than just any other invention is because it spread everywhere.
Newsprint used to be International Paper’s main product, but it is no longer produced by that company since it was so unprofitable (‘A Short History of”, 1998). Very few companies manufacture newsprint anymore due to the fact that most people get their news via radio, television, and various other internet sources. Emails and social media posts have all but replaced Christmas, birthday, and get-well cards. Magazines are read online, Christmas catalogs have been replaced by online sales, and the vast majority of our junk mail has been transformed into spam in our email boxes. Corrugated and cardboard boxes have been replaced by plastic “clamshells”. Even our government has gotten into the act of reducing paper by forcing the use of electronic health records in the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“Key Features of the”, 2015). Because paper products are used in so many different applications, there is virtually no end to the substitute products which are
The “invention and manufacture of standard movable type allowed the beginning of the printing industry” (Thompson 210). “The first printed encyclopedia, the Catholica, appeared in 1460 and the following year a Strasbourg printer, Johan Mentelin, produced a Bible for laymen” (Johnson 18). The invention of printing made a large amount of material cheaply available (Thompson 210).