Moisture of paper can be classified as follows
(1) To be loaded moieculary in the interior of fibres.
(2) To be adhered to inside the capillaries through the apertures in the minute structures of fibres.
(3) To be kept in isolated condition inside and between the fibres.
Moisture dehydrated by the common method is the isolated ones, and adhesive moisture is hard to be dehydrated.
Moisture-ratio's differences of Japanese paper depend upon the following itemes :
(1) Difference to thickness.
(2) Proportion of timber-pulp mixtured.
(3) Whether bleached or unbleached.
(4) Existence of filling-drug, size etc.
Generally the thin paper has a larger moisture-ratio than the thicker
When Kozo-paper is compared with timber-pulp mixed paper, the former has a smiler free water content.
Also, paper mixed with bamboo-fibres such as Gasenshi has a larger moisture-ratio.
In case hether bleached or unbleached, the former has a larger moisture-ratio.
Paper added with a sort of clay as a filling-drug has a large moisture-ratio.
And the paper with a large solid-fraction in general has a large moisture-ratio, too.
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