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2. Cellophane - Wikipedia

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   Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air , oils , greases , bacteria , and liquid water makes it useful for food packaging . Cellophane is highly permeable to water vapour , but may be coated with nitrocellulose lacquer to prevent this.

3. Packaging - Wikipedia

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   Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut paperboard box in 1890—flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair's invention came about as a result of an accident: as a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s, he was once printing an order of seed bags, and the metal ruler, commonly used to crease bags ...

4. Corrugated fiberboard - Wikipedia

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   Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut paperboard box in 1890 – flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair's invention resulted from an accident. He was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s. While he was printing seed bags, a metal ruler used to crease bags shifted in position and cut them.

5. Cellophane noodles - Wikipedia

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   Cellophane noodles, or fensi (traditional Chinese: 粉絲; simplified Chinese: 粉丝; pinyin: fěnsī; lit. 'flour thread'), sometimes called glass noodles, are a type of transparent noodle made from starch (such as mung bean starch, potato starch, sweet potato starch, tapioca, or canna starch) and water.

6. Package cushioning - Wikipedia

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   These can be molded engineered shapes or sheets which are cut and glued into cushion structures. [5] Convoluted (or finger) foams are sometimes used. [6] Some degradable foams are also available. [7] Foam-in-place is another method of using polyurethane foams. These fill the box, fully encapsulating the product to immobilize it.

7. Dialysis tubing - Wikipedia

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   The first mass-produced man-made membranes suitable for dialysis were not available until the 1930s, based on materials used in the food packaging industry such as cellophane. In the 1940s, Willem Kolff constructed the first dialyzer (artificial kidney), and successfully treated patients with kidney failure using dialysis across semi-permeable ...