A Norwegian scientist lias succeeded in making a new kind of artificial wood. A mixture of about SO per cent, sawdust with chalk and chemicals is used. The mixture is subjected to high pressure, and a. product is thus obtained which possesses all Uie qualities of genuine timber. Tho specific gravity of the wood is the same as that of real wood; its hardness fa like fliat of file oak. Xt can be planed sawed, bored, nailed, painted, stained, or polished, and subjected to r-vri-y pi-vrasa' u[ carpentry or'mainline-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1924, Page 6
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