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Partical Board / Chip Board - Meenal Jain - 07-22-2014

This is made up of small chips of wood glued together and formed into sheets by compression.

It is not as strong as plywood and block board but it is not expensive. Chipboard is often covered with a plastic laminate or wood veneer and used in furniture.

A large class of building board made form wood and particles and a binder, often faced with veneer, chipboard is made by binding phenolic resin or urea formaldehyde glue in the form of a 4 ft. wide board, length from 8-16 feet long with thicknesses ¼, 5/16/, 3/8, ½ , 5/8, and ¾ in.

Chipboards are used both from interior and exterior which include sheathing for walls, and roof, subflooring, fence paneling, and commercial exteriors and interiors.

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