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The chemical composition of wood and pulps is briefly reviewed in this chapter, with reference to the relevant analytical problems. The purpose is to give a background to the following chapters, which deal specifically and in more detail with the separation techniques and analytical methods in wood chemistry.
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Sjöström, E., Westermark, U. (1999). Chemical Composition of Wood and Pulps: Basic Constituents and Their Distribution. In: Sjöström, E., Alén, R. (eds) Analytical Methods in Wood Chemistry, Pulping, and Papermaking. Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03898-7_1
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