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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Wood pulp VS wood shaving

'Wood pulp' and 'wood shaving' are exactly the same?
  

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No. Wood shavings are those little sometimes curly bits of very thin wood that are shaved off by a tool when someone is reshaping a larger piece of wood. Wood pulp is the finely ground substance that paper is made of.

  • No.
  • Wood shavings are those little sometimes curly bits of very thin wood that are shaved off by a tool when someone is reshaping a larger piece of wood.
  • Wood pulp is the finely ground substance that paper is made of.
  • One could turn wood shavings into wood pulp, but they are not the same thing.
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No. Wood shavings are those little sometimes curly bits of very thin wood that are shaved off by a tool when someone is reshaping a larger piece of wood.

Wood pulp is the finely ground substance that paper is made of. One could turn wood shavings into wood pulp, but they are not the same thing.

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