A paper with a high wet strength and grease resistance. A
packaging material that has a very high wet and dry strength and
is impermeable to grease. Vegetable parchment is produced from
an absorbing, pure, bleached chemical pulp. Vegetable parchment
is also called parchment paper. See also CHEMICAL PULP;
PARCHMENT A grease-proof paper with very high wet strength, made
by passing the paper web through a sulphuric acid bath that
fuses its fibres into a homogenous mass. A highly grease and
water resistant paper resembling parchment and made by passing
unsized paper through sulphuric acid in order to gelatinise its
surface prior to the washing and drying procedures. A packaging
paper that is greaseproof or grease resistant, with high wet
strength. Used for packaging such items as frozen, moist or
greasy food products. It is made by passing paper through a bath
of sulphuric acid. Paper made from pure bleached chemical pulp,
which goes through a treatment of sulphuric acid giving it a
lasting resistance to grease p