I’ve heard strawboard is a bit different and s often treated to deal with mositure issues. From Wordnik.com. [PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland | Inhabitat] Reference
Jerusalem used three variations of the strawboard throughout the design. From Wordnik.com. [PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland | Inhabitat] Reference
The strawboard also takes the place of wood-pulp for smaller paper boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
Barrels or boxes of wood, or strawboard lined with water-proof paper, should be used in packing for shipment. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930] Reference
Jerusalem exploits the strawboard with translucent siding giving the structure a clean, modern aesthetic that showcases the material. From Wordnik.com. [PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland | Inhabitat] Reference
Women and children stood in the dooryards watching the fire that was cutting through the thin-walled buildings on that side of the square -- the hotel side -- as if they were strawboard boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Recyclable fiberglass ceiling tiles, wall coverings, CRI (Carpet and Rug Institute) certified carpet padding, strawboard sub-flooring, FSC wood floors, low-E glazed windows, Caesarstone countertops, the list goes on. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Schwab: City Center: Green Isn't Supposed To Be This Gorgeous] Reference
Designed by Zurich-based architect Felix Jerusalem, this home masterfully combines prefab with sustainable materials, primarily prefabricated strawboard panels that provide affordable, environmentally sound insulation. From Wordnik.com. [PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland | Inhabitat] Reference
Time magazine reporter Lansing Lamont, in his 1965 book Day of Trinity related that Kodak officials traced the imperfections to radioactive cerium in strawboard -- from Trinity -- produced with river water from Indiana, over 1,000 miles from the Trinity site. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel S. Epstein: Reflecting on the 65th Anniversary of the First A-Bomb] Reference
Then, opening the office-door, he displayed a target of padded strawboard against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference
One way was an oyster pail factory, one way they made candy, one way paper boxes, strawboard cartons. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Curtains. II. People Who Must] Reference
In 1881, Steele & Price, of Chicago, were the first to introduce to the trade all-paper cans, made of strawboard, for coffee. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
As a matter of course they had to give up their comfortable Home among the Friends who had got used to them and move out to a strawboard. From Wordnik.com. [Ade's Fables] Reference
Book and parcel post volumes should have three or four thicknesses of paper, and if bound volumes a strawboard on either side as well as paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books] Reference
This is a social disparity, poor people can only use toilet paper, waste paper, strawboard, rich and powerful politicians have to do with gold paper, coveting a high standard. From Wordnik.com. [VInvesting.com] Reference
As we noted previously, other green design features include low-VOC paints and adhesives, recycled-content materials, certified wood floors, Interface carpet tiles, Ecophon fiberglass ceiling tiles and wall coverings, and custom strawboard millwork. From Wordnik.com. [greenbuildingsNYC] Reference
I’m not sure if I’ve ever touched strawboard before. From Wordnik.com. [The Isabella Stool by Ryan Frank] Reference
1881 -- Steele & Price, Chicago, are the first to introduce all-paper cans (made of strawboard) for coffee. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
1901 -- Improved all-paper cans for coffee (made of strawboard or chip-board, plain or manila-lined) are introduced into the United. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
They made some sort of board, and he bought it in about 1898 and he was thinking he'd just go back and carry on making this strawboard stuff, I guess with the construction industry and one of his friends said to him "go into rubber, Frank. From Wordnik.com. [American Road: The Story of An Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age] Reference
Rather than using the exotic hardwoods featured in traditional African seating, the innovative designer chose to work with 100% felted wool and ’strawboard’ – a sustainable, formaldehyde-free material made entirely from compressed straw. From Wordnik.com. [Antonia Halse | Inhabitat] Reference
Every court and alley whispers of books and of the making of books: forms of type, trundled noisily on trolleys by ink-smeared boys, salute the wayfarer at odd corners; piles of strawboard, rolls or bales of paper, drums of printing-ink or roller composition stand on the pavement outside dark entries; basement windows give glimpses into Hadean caverns tenanted by legions of printer's devils; and the very air is charged with the hum of press and with odors of glue and paste and oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
First strawboard (1881), 471. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
Transmaterial catalog: Biosteel, pervious concrete, Superblack, corrugated glass, rubber pavements/sidewalks, strawboard, conductive plastic, plasphalt, light-emitting glass, regenerative plastic. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 2, 2005 - January 8, 2005 Archives] Reference
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