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n. - Strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution.

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  • Rooted in Germanic idea of "strength" (which lives on in our English term kraft paper), crafty once meant "skillful."
  • Since the 1930s the overwhelming majority of paper mills have employed what's called the kraft process to produce paper.
  • Energy is energi or "kraft" probably more like power.
  • Turns out the paper industry has long used something called the "kraft" process to make paper.
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  • A "craft" is skill in making things by hand or an occupation using hand skills, while "kraft" is a tough paper, usually brown.
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