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Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses
Gilbert Erwin Stecher
Strip the bark from a Mediterranean oak and it grows back, ready to harvest again: that is Quercus Suber, the cork oak. Stecher traces the spongy tissue from living tree to bottle stopper, flooring, and insulation, explaining how one renewable bark built an industry. Botany, forestry, and manufacture in a single illustrated study. Discover the tree behind the cork.
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33 chapters
- 1CORK: Its Origin and Industrial Uses
- 2GILBERT E. STECHER
- 3Illustrated
- 4PREFACE
- 5CONTENTS
- 6CORK:
- 7Its Origin and Industrial Uses
- 8QUERCUS SUBER—
- 9“Cork”
- 10Quercus Liber (Linnæus)
- 11“Quercus Suber”
- 12“CORK”
- 13ORIGIN
- 14The Tree and Growth
- 15DISEASES
- 16STRIPPING
- 17BOTANY AND CHEMISTRY
- 18Test of Corkwood for Ascertaining the Possible Presence of an Essential Oil, by Steam Distillation
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