Judul: Karakteristik Hasil Fumigasi Amonia dan Daya Tahan Lapisan Finishing Berpelarut Air Pada Beberapa Jenis Kayu dari Hutan Rakyat
Abstrak: Wood from community forest in general have a pale color, not durable, and has a less attractive appearance. Wood finishing was one of the ways to solve these problem. Ammonia fumigation was one method to change the natural wood’s color. Before marketed, furniture usually coated in order to make the better appearance and reduce the surface erosion. Waterbased wood finish used in this study did not containe toxic and ecofriendly. The purpose of study is to determine color change and durability of wood from community forest after the fumigation of dry wood termites (Cryptotermes cynocephallus Light), determine the cross cut of finishing waterbased, and to determine the durability of finishing waterbased layer for chemical household, hot, and cold. Result of this study showed that jackfriut wood, mahogany wood, teak wood, manilkara wood, and vi rasamala wood occur significant color changes while angsana wood, manii wood, and kaboril wood didn’t occur significant color change. Ammonia fumigation can increase the resistance of wood to dry wood termite attack, where the weight loss of ammonia fumigated wood was smaller than weight loss sample of unfumigated wood. Waterbased wood finished have good resistance to chemical household at one hour and 24 hours intervals and have good resistance to heat and cold. Cross cut result showed that waterbased wood finished have good adhesion at wood surface.
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Judul: Karakteristik Hasil Fumigasi Amonia Dan Daya Tahan Lapisan Finishing Pelarut Air (Waterbased Lacquer) Pada Beberapa Jenis Kayu Rakyat.
Abstrak: Wood species from community forests have a high chance to be developed of a high value-added products, particularly furniture. However, these timber forest have a less attractive appearance (pale colors and ununiforms, as well as less attractive fibers). Therefore efforts to improve the quality of its natural appearance are needed. One of the proposed method to improve the quality is ammonia fumigation method can change the color and appearance of wood becomes more attractive naturally. Therefore this method can be used for wood staining. The use of fumigation method in wood finishing process will also help in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the finishing process. Finishing materials used should be safe for humans also having strength and good film layers. One of which is waterbased lacquer. This study aims to determine the applicability of natural wood staining by ammonia fumigation method and its effectiveness against dry wood termites (Cryptotermes cynocephalus Light). The durability of the finishing layer of waterbased lacquer to household chemicals, hot and cold test, and cross cut tests were also tested. Wood species studied were A. mangium, A. parviflorum, M. kemanga, V. pubescens, L. glauca, M. glauca, S. wallichii, and H. tiliaceus. One of most popular wood species for American and Europe consumers was also tested (the oak wood). The test results showed that ammonia fumigation method increases the aesthetic value of wood (color and pattern look natural) and increases durability of wood. In addition, visual observations on the condition of the finishing lacquer against household chemicals with intervals of 1 hour and 24 hours, and hot and cold tests indicate that the layer of waterbased lacquer have a strong resistance layer, and classified in class 10. Whereas the cross-cut test resistance showed that A. parviflorum wood of fumigation and non-fumigation classified into Grade 4B and eight other species were classified Grade 5B.
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Judul: Infeksin virus rota pada anak babi
Abstrak: Virus Rota sudah lama diduga sebagai salah satu penyebab diare pada anak babi yang baru dilahirkan. Hal ini diperkuat dengan berhasilnya Mebus dan kawan-kawan mengidentifikasi virus Rota pada kejadian diare yang ter jadi pada anak sapi yang baru dilahirkan. Infeksi virus Rota merupakan hal yang serius, kejadian yang mewabah pernah dilaporkan di Amerika Serikat, Inggris, Kanada dan Australia. Sedangkan kejadian di Indonesia yang dihubungkan dengan infeksi virus Rota belum dilaporkan. Virus Rota termasuk keluarga Reo viridea. Sesuai dengan namanya, virus Rota menyerupai roda (Rota = Wheel), mengandung asam nukleat (nucleid acid) yang berupa asam nukleat ribo (ribo nucleid acid, RNA) dan berserabut ganda (double stranded), tidak mempunyai selubung (envelop atau peplos). Hewan rentan adalah hewan yang berumur sangat muda. Selain menyerang babi, dapat pula menyerang sapi, domba, rusa, anjing, kucing, tikus, kelinci, unggas dan manusia. ...
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