NATURAL PLANT PRODUCTS plant materials in everyday life;plant materials in everyday life.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: TRUEB, LUCIEN F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : SCHWEIZERBART, 2020.
Temas:
Human-plant relationships.
Relations homme-plante.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • 1. Materials
  • 1.1 Wood
  • a renewable material
  • 1.1.1 Wood as archetype of matter
  • 1.1.2 A natural composite material
  • 1.2 Modern forestry
  • 1.3 The Taiga-forest of Fennoscandia
  • 1.3.1 Semi-natural forests
  • 1.3.2 Planting and sowing trees
  • 1.3.3 Three thinnings in a hundred years
  • 1.4 Forests of Central and Southern Europe
  • 1.5 North American forests
  • 1.6 Technically and economically important tree species
  • 1.6.1 Acacias
  • 1.6.2 Alder
  • 1.6.3 Ash
  • 1.6.4 Balsa
  • 1.6.5 Beech
  • 1.6.6 Birch
  • 1.6.7 Blackthorn
  • 1.6.8 Box tree
  • 1.6.9 Chestnut
  • 1.6.10 Corylus: Common Hazel and Filbert
  • 1.6.11 Ebony
  • 1.6.12 Elm
  • 1.6.13 Eucalyptus
  • 1.6.14 Firs
  • 1.6.15 Giant Redwood
  • 1.6.16 Hickory
  • 1.6.17 Hornbeam
  • 1.6.18 Horse chestnut
  • 1.6.19 Larch
  • 1.6.20 Linden
  • Tilia
  • 1.6.21 Mahogany
  • 1.6.22 Maple
  • 1.6.23 Mountain ash or rowan
  • 1.6.24 Oak
  • 1.6.25 Pine
  • 1.6.26 Plane tree or Sycamore (Platanus)
  • 1.6.27 Poplar
  • 1.6.28 Quaking aspen
  • 1.6.29 Quebracho
  • 1.6.30 Robinia or False acacia
  • 1.6.31 Rosewood
  • 1.6.32 Single-Leaf pinyon
  • 1.6.33 Spruce
  • 1.6.34 Swiss stone pine
  • 1.6.35 Teak
  • 1.6.36 Walnut tree
  • 1.6.37 Yew
  • 1.7 Bamboo
  • 1.8 Engineered Wood Products
  • 1.8.1 Plywood
  • 1.8.2 Processing the raw material
  • 1.8.3 Hardboard, Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF), Oriented Strand Board (OSB) and Particle Board
  • 1.8.4 Cement-Bonded Wood
  • 1.9 Wood-plastic composites
  • 1.10 Structural products made from waste wood
  • 1.11 Cellulose
  • 1.11.1 Wood Pulp
  • 1.11.2 Sulfite and Sulfate Cellulose
  • 1.11.3 Bleaching
  • 1.11.4 Wastewater-free bleaching
  • 1.12 Paper
  • 1.12.1 Paper starts as a suspension of fibers
  • 1.12.2 From newsprint to hand-made paper
  • 1.12.3 Self-destroying paper
  • 1.13 Cellulose derivatives
  • 1.14 Lignin
  • 1.15 Bagasse
  • 1.16 Peat
  • 1.17 Cork
  • 1.18 Starch
  • 1.19 Wood distillation products
  • 1.20 Charcoal and activated Carbon
  • 1.21 Wood Ashes
  • 2. Fibers
  • 2.1 Seed-padding fibers
  • 2.1.1 Cotton
  • 2.1.2 Coir or cocos fiber
  • 2.1.3 Kapok
  • 2.2 Bast fibers or stem skin fibers
  • 2.2.1 Flax
  • 2.2.2 Hemp
  • 2.2.3 Ramie
  • 2.2.4 Jute
  • 2.2.5 Jute substitution fibers
  • 2.3 Leaf fibers
  • 2.4 Miscellaneous fibers
  • 3. Elastomers
  • 3.1 Balata and Guttapercha
  • 3.2 Guayule: Latex from a desert shrub
  • 3.3 Kok-saghyz or Russian Dandelion
  • 3.4 Natural Rubber
  • 3.4.1 A dangerous fungus
  • 3.4.2 A strategic material
  • 3.4.3 Gathering latex
  • 3.4.4 Standard Malaysian Rubber
  • 3.4.5 Rubber
  • 4. Hydrocolloids
  • Thickeners
  • 4.1 Agar-agar
  • 4.2 Algin
  • 4.3 Aloe vera
  • 4.4 Carrageenan
  • 4.5 Cellulose derivatives
  • 4.6 Galactomannanes
  • 4.6.1 Carob flour or Locust bean flour
  • 4.6.2 Tara seed flour
  • 4.6.3 Guar gum flour
  • 4.7 Iceland moss
  • 4.8 Pectin
  • 4.9 Starch and Dextrins
  • 4.10 Tamarind
  • 4.11 Tragacanth
  • 4.12 Xanthan
  • 5. Alcohols, Oils, Essential Oils
  • 5.1 Alcohols

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