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A STUDY of the methods of utilising the vast areas of pine forests which occur in various parts of the world is a matter of considerable importance from the scientific and economic points of view, and both aspects have recently received considerable attention in Australia and in the United States. In each case the manufacture of cellulose pulp for the paper and allied industries has been the main objective; but the problem has been approached from somewhat different aspects in the two countries. Thus, the American workers have erected a large-scale experimental plant, and have carried out numerous pulping trials, whilst in Australia a more fundamental study of the chemistry and structure of the woods has first been made, with small-scale pulping trials to provide additional information. The two studies are therefore, in a sense, complementary; and it is interesting to consider them together.
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G., J. Utilisation of Pine Forests: Cellulose Pulp. Nature 136, 1014–1016 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361014a0
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