Meaning of handsheet | Babel Free

Definitions

A small sheet of manufactured material created in a laboratory for testing purposes.

Examples

“The improved sheet formation of foam-laid paper is shown visually in Fig. 2 where softwood kraft handsheets, water-laid and foam-laid are shown for comparison.”

“The handsheets from unbeaten pulps had greater stretch if press dried than thos from beaten pulps.”

“With this fiber, we then formed a series of air-laid and water-laid handsheets varying the temperature of the forming or rewetting water, the forming substrate, and, because press-dry effectiveness has been shown to vary with sheet weight, the grammage.”

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