Department of Functionalized Natural Materials, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University 大阪大学 産業科学研究所 第2研究分門 自然材料機能化研究分野

Department of Functionalized Natural Materials, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University 大阪大学 産業科学研究所 第2研究分門 自然材料機能化研究分野

Wood & Pulp name in the scientific report

How to write wood name in the scientific report?

When you write the Japanese cedar in the scientific report, you must write “”Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)”.
Scientific name must be written in Italic!!

How to write wood name in the scientific report?

There are many pulps name such as NBKP. LBKP, NDSP and so on. However, they are not acceptable in the scientific reports, because they are just  business abbreviations.
So, you must write “softwood bleached kraft pulp”, “hardwood bleached kraft pulp”, “softwood dissolving sulfite pulp” and so on.

Softwood

Wood has many species. Wood is roughly separated softwood or hardwood. So, softwood is one of the wood category, and has many wood species, such as pine ans spruce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softwood

Japanese cedar

It is the wood species name. So, Japanese cedar has only one of it.
Its Japanese name is “スギ”, and English name is “Japanese ceder”, and its scientific name is “Cryptomeria japonica”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomeria

Pulp name in business abbreviations

 



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