The word 'particleboard' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a type of engineered wood product made from wood particles such as sawdust, wood chips, and other lignocellulosic materials, mixed with a synthetic resin or other binder and formed into boards under heat and pressure. You can use the word 'particleboard' when writing about home construction or furniture making. For example, "The new kitchen cabinets were made from high-quality particleboard for a durable and budget-friendly option."
Formaldehyde off-gassing from building products (especially particleboard and plywood) and from dry-cleaned textiles can accumulate in indoor air.
The sawdust and chips from the machines formerly were disposed of by pneumatic ducts ending in the boiler house, where they were used as fuel; substantial quantities of these materials are now fabricated into particleboard and chipboard.
Plywood or particleboard sheathing is then nailed to the roof surfaces to receive the roofing and to provide lateral stability, making the entire frame into a rigid box.
Bark can be used in products such as particleboard and fibreboard, and small amounts are tolerated in semichemical and kraft pulping processes.
Edging can also be done by chipping in a simultaneous sawing and chipping operation, with the chips directed to pulp, fibreboard, or particleboard manufacture.
Some forms of particleboard are consolidated with mineral binders, such as cement or gypsum, rather than synthetic resins; the wood in this product is usually in the form of excelsior (long, thin ribbons), although particles also can be used.
The development of these products (as well as particleboard, described in the next section) was made possible by the production of improved adhesives especially synthetic resins in the 1930s and '40s.
Cecropia peltata (trumpetwood) resembles the North American Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood; family Salicaceae) in density and mechanical properties and is used in making boxes, plywood, and particleboard stock.
Phenol-formaldehyde resins make excellent wood adhesives for plywood and particleboard because they form chemical bonds with the phenol-like lignin component of wood.
Variation in such characteristics as particle morphology and arrangement, method of production, board thickness (2 40 mm [about 0.08 1.6 inches]), presence of perforations, and type and amount of adhesive allow the production of particleboards with different properties.
It is stomach-turningly accurate on everything from the unsteady 'particleboard wrapped in a cheap orange or beige fiber' between cubicles to the irrational rage that prompts otherwise decentish people to snap 'crip', 'gimp' and 'wobbler' behind an injured colleague's back.
