Craft · 6 pages · 12 min
Why particle board fears water
Particle board is chips and interior resin, so water swells the chips and breaks the bond.
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From the opening
Particle board is small wood particles mixed with resin and pressed into a sheet, without a continuous grain running through it. Water soaks the particles, they swell, and the resin that stuck them, often an interior urea glue, loses its hold as the chips push apart. The opening covers chips swell and stay swollen, interior resin lets go when wet, and raw edges drink first.
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Inside
- Chips swell and stay swollen
- Interior resin lets go when wet
- Raw edges drink first
- Drying does not restore thickness
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Thickness swell of particle board
- Urea-formaldehyde binder in interior particle board