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GLOSSARY ITEM | 16 Apr 2024
Sawnwood is wood that has been produced either by sawing lengthways or by a profile-chipping process and, with a few exceptions, is greater than 6 millimetres (mm) in thickness. Eurostat b...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 16 Apr 2024
In this context residues can include: agricultural, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry residues, and processing residues. A processing residue is a substance that is not the end product(s) that a production process directly...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 15 Apr 2024
All roundwood felled or otherwise harvested and removed. It comprises all wood obtained from removals, i.e. the quantities removed from forests and from trees outside the forest, including...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 12 Apr 2024
Substance composed of macromolecules. Vert, M., Y. Doi, et al. (IUPAC Polymer Division) 2012, 'Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)'...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 12 Apr 2024
A molecule of low molecular weight capable of chemically reacting to another molecule of the same type to form a larger molecule, such as dimer, trimer, tetramer, polymer, etc...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Class of complex organic polymers supporting tissues of vascular plants. Such complex aromatic heteropolymers, stiffen and fortify secondary cell walls within xylem tissues...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 04 Apr 2024
Any of a group of complex carbohydrates that, with other carbohydrates (e.g.,pectins), surround the cellulose fibres of plant cells. The most common hemicelluloses contain xylans (many molecules...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 26 Mar 2024
Means the enrichment of water by nitrogen compounds, causing an accelerated growth of algae and higher forms of plant life to produce an undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 19 Mar 2024
An incidental product deriving from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction, and not the primary product or service being produced. A by-product can be useful and marketable, or it can...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 19 Mar 2024
Surfactants derived from biomass; whereas surfactants are molecules that consist of one hydrophilic (having strong affinity with water) part and one hydrophobic (repelling water) part...