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Sandpaper is produced in a range of grit sizes and is used to remove material from surfaces, whether to make them smoother (for example, in painting and wood finishing), to remove a layer of material (such as old paint), or sometimes to make the surface rougher (for example, as a preparation for gluing). The grit size of sandpaper is usually ...
Grit, one of the byproducts of grinding, an abrasive machining process Grit removal , the removal of grit, the coarse abrasive material in untreated sewage Grit size table , fineness/coarseness classification of sandpaper grit, and compares the CAMI and "P" designations with the average grit size in micrometres (μm)
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The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [3] [4] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.
Sandpaper is a very common coated abrasive. Coated abrasives are most commonly the same minerals as are used for bonded abrasives. A bonding agent (often some sort of adhesive or resin) is applied to the backing to provide a flat surface to which the grit is then subsequently adhered.
Sandpaper refers to abrasive paper that uses sand as the grit although many people use it as the generic term. Zarboki 10:50, 2 November 2005 (UTC) [ reply ] Coated abrasives is even more generic and is the term used by the industry, and you could argued that sanding belts that use cloth as a backing are not paper.
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