Flashcards: Paper

A paper cut occurs when a piece of paper or other thin, sharp material slices a person's skin.

Cardboard is a generic term for a heavy-duty paper of various strengths, ranging from a simple arrangement of a single thick sheet of paper to complex configurations featuring multiple corrugated and uncorrugated layers.

Papermaking is the process of making paper, a material which is used universally today for writing and packaging.

(For other uses, see Toilet paper (disambiguation).) Toilet paper is a tissue paper product primarily used for wiping and cleaning the anus and surrounding area of fecal material after defecation and by human females for cleaning the perineal area of urine after urination and other bodily fluid releases.

Fiberboard (American spelling) or fibreboard (Commonwealth spelling) is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers.

Corrugated fiberboard is a material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards.

Pulp is a lignocellulosic fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating cellulose fibres from wood, fiber crops or waste paper.

Tracing paper is paper made to have low opacity, allowing light to pass through.

Many paper size standards conventions have existed at different times and in different countries.

A calender is a series of hard pressure rollers used to form or smooth a sheet of material such as paper or plastic film.

A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations in the paper.

Tissue paper or simply tissue is a lightweight paper or, light crêpe paper.

Vellum (derived from the Latin word vitulinum meaning "made from calf", leading to Old French vélin, "calfskin") often refers to a parchment made from calf skin, as opposed to that from other animals.

Blotting paper, sometimes called bibulous paper, is a highly absorbent type of paper or other material.

Woodfree uncoated paper (WFU) or uncoated fine papers are manufactured using wood that has been processed into a chemical pulp that removes the lignin from the wood fibers and may also contain 5–25% fillers.

Card stock, also called cover stock or pasteboard, is a paper stock that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard.

Filter paper is a semi-permeable paper barrier placed perpendicular to a liquid or air flow.

A paperless office is a work environment in which the use of paper is eliminated or greatly reduced.

Paper is a writing material that was first invented in ancient China.

Tree-free paper or tree-free newsprint describes an alternative to wood-pulp paper by its raw material composition.

Cotton paper is made from cotton linters or cotton from used cloths (rags) as the primary material source, hence the name rag paper.

Wood-free paper is paper created exclusively from chemical pulp rather than mechanical pulp.