October 24th, 2017
Let's talk about paper...
The "Real Academia Española" (RAE) attributes the etymological origin of paper to the Catalan word paper which, in turn, would derive from the Latin papyrus. The paper is a thin sheet that is made with vegetable fiber paste, these fibers can come from wood, straw or other sources, are milled, bleached and dissolved in water. Then a process of drying and hardening is carried out by different mechanisms ...