Difference between revisions of "Plastic Wood"

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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
  
Originally the name for a wood filler that was composed of wood flour mixed in cellulose nitrate resin.  Currently the DAP brand Plastic Wood is a latex-based polyemer suspended in acetone and isopryl alcohol solvent.  It is filled with sawdust of wood fibers and may also contain limestone and atapulgite.  T
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Originally the name for a wood filler that was composed of wood flour mixed in cellulose nitrate resin.  In the 1990s, DAP trademarked the Plastic Wood name for it's latex-based polymer suspended in acetone and isopryl alcohol solvent.  It is filled with sawdust of wood fibers and may also contain limestone and atapulgite.   
  
 
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Revision as of 12:06, 4 April 2020

Description

Originally the name for a wood filler that was composed of wood flour mixed in cellulose nitrate resin. In the 1990s, DAP trademarked the Plastic Wood name for it's latex-based polymer suspended in acetone and isopryl alcohol solvent. It is filled with sawdust of wood fibers and may also contain limestone and atapulgite.

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