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Rigid Wood Products:
Solid and Composite Wood Products.—The main wood products manufactured in the United States for which statistics are recorded show great variety. Wood is included in thousands of items from agricultural implements, boot and shoe findings, and boxes to toys, trunks, Venetian blinds, and wooden ware.Because molecules of organic materials are susceptible to radiation, we may soon see the development of tougher plastics, economically vulcanized rubber, and even more rigid wood products for furniture. These chemical processes, fascinating in their complexity and variety, are rapidly approaching the point of economic utility, at which time a whole range of new materials may be at man's disposal.
Many other industrial products can be made from chemically converted wood, and numerous future uses doubtless will be found for wood wastes and low-grade trees. Solving some technological problems may convert wood into constituents of other fibers, crude molasses for livestock, yeast for human food, and various alcohols. More than a fifth of wood substance is lignin, a binder of complex chemical structure not understood and mostly wasted, though the source of vanillin flavoring.
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