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Deep Dive from The Japan Times
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The Chemistry of Wood
Researchers were searching for a way to separate and extract the main components of wood. Wood is basically made of polymers called cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Lignin is the key because in the cell wall, this is what gives wood its really hard rigidity.
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