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Foxing is an age-related process of deterioration that causes spots and browning on old paper documents such as books, postage stamps, old paper money and certificates. The name may be a variant form of the English West country dialect term foust and Scots foze , to become moldy. [ 1 ]
Continuous stationery (UK) or continuous form paper (US) is paper which is designed for use with dot-matrix and line printers with appropriate paper-feed mechanisms. Other names include fan-fold paper , sprocket-feed paper , burst paper , lineflow (New Zealand), tractor-feed paper , and pin-feed paper .
Tear tape, also known as tearstrip or tear-off ribbon, is a narrow adhesive tape used to open packaging. The backing is often a narrow oriented polymer such as polypropylene but other polymers, yarns, and filaments are also used. Many tear tapes use a pressure sensitive adhesive but others have a heat-activated adhesive system.
Set-off is defined as the tendency of ink to transfer from a freshly printed surface to another paper when pressed without any friction. Set-off is an unwanted behavior of paper and ink. It is influenced by the characteristics of the paper and ink: a porous paper surface absorbs the ink fast results in lesser set-off, as do inks that dry (or ...
English: Tearing a sheet off a roll of toilet paper. Like most toilet paper, it is perforated and thin, making it easy to tear one or more sheets off. Like most toilet paper, it is perforated and thin, making it easy to tear one or more sheets off.
Typical triage tag used for emergency mass casualty decontamination.. A triage tag is a tool first responders and medical personnel use during a mass casualty incident.With the aid of the triage tags, the first-arriving personnel are able to effectively and efficiently distribute the limited resources and provide the necessary immediate care for the victims until more help arrives.
Ropalidia marginata is an Old World species of paper wasp. It is primitively eusocial , not showing the same bias in brood care seen in other social insects with greater asymmetry in relatedness. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The species employs a variety of colony founding strategies, sometimes with single founders and sometimes in groups of variable number. [ 3 ]
"Button Off My Shirt" is a song written by Billy Livsey and Graham Lyle, and recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It released in July 1988 as the fifth single from the album Heart & Soul .