Talk:Clear rolling papers

message: Please do not Vandalize this page,  this post is referring to Aleda employees who keep vandalizing the page after being caught falsely advertising their product as being made from vegetables intead of wood & glycerin...  --Mrtobacco 22:28, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of processed cellulose.
Cellulose fibers from wood, cotton or hemp are dissolved in alkali to make a solution called viscose, which is then extruded through a slit into an acid bath to reconvert the viscose into cellulose. A similar process, using a hole instead of a slit (a spinneret), is used to make a fibre called rayon.
Cellophane was invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger, a Swiss textiles engineer in 1908. After witnessing a wine spill on a restaurant tablecloth, Brandenberger initially had the idea to develop a clear coating for cloth to make it waterproof. He experimented, and came up with a way to apply liquid viscose to cloth, but found the resultant combination of cloth and viscose film too stiff to be of use. However the clear film easily separated from the backing cloth, and he abandoned his original idea as the possibilities of the new material became apparent. Cellophane's low permeability to air, grease and bacteria makes it useful for food packaging.
Whitman's candy company initiated use of cellophane for candy wrapping in the United States in 1912 for their Whitman's Sampler. They remained the largest user of imported cellophane from France until nearly 1924, when DuPont built the first cellophane manufacturing plant in the US. In 1935 British Cellophane Ltd was established, a joint venture between La Cellophane SA and Courtaulds, which opened a major factory producing cellophane in Columbus, OH in 1937. Cellophane is also used in gift baskets and flower bouquet.
Cellulose film has since been manufactured continuously since the mid-1930s and is still used today. As well as packaging a variety of food items, there are also industrial applications, such as a base for self-adhesive tapes like Sellotape and Scotch Tape, a semi-permeable membrane in certain types of battery, and as a release agent in the manufacture of fibreglass and rubber products. Typically, however, the use of the word "cellophane" has been genericized, and is often used informally to refer to a wide variety of plastic film products, even those not made of cellulose.
Cellophane sales are now dwindling heavily, through use of alternative packaging options, and the fact that Viscose is becoming less common because of the polluting effects of carbon disulfide and other by-products of the process.
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Cellophane Invention —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrtobacco (talk • contribs) 16:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In case you aren't in the mood to click on the link to read that Cellophane IS CELLULOSE FILM GENERIC TERM 

message: I've tagged the page  because there is a lot of dispute. Please discuss changes here. Use reliable sources to back up your claim. --h2g2bob (talk) 04:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your post does not jive with what you wrote on your talk page about desiging scales, flyers and webpages for American Weigh.  I'm glad you've agreed to stop blanking. --Mrtobacco 14:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How doesn't it jive? I said graphic design to basically sum up the bulk of what I do. Then I said I "occasionally" get to do product design. Either way, it doesn't matter. I should be starting back at school at Full Sail in Orlando, come October. Onyx86 17:10, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Active Discussion 

message: "Most are currently made in Brazil and would therefore be made from ..."
Therefore? Are you kidding? How does being made in Brazil lead to the percentages of various ingredients? This whole page needs attention.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 16:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Therefore? 

message: 280 degrees Celsius is what temperature is required to change Glycerin into Acrolein but 160 degrees Celsius is all is required for Glycerin to ignite. Granted, a lighter burns a flame roughly 650 degrees Celsius, is it not irrelevant to mention this? Proximity to the flame as well as the other chemicals found within these clear rolling papers seem to suggest that what little glycerin is found in these papers (what's the number, 13%?) and the effect the flame would have on them (as the paper would be burning at a lower temperature than the initial lighting would give out) would not produce an amount of Acrolein even mentionable (if at all.) Correct me if I'm lost. 74.12.11.163 (talk) 14:21, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Temperatures, and Acrolein