The trick is to ignore everyone but robert picardo.
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Not only that but what about the process involved? How much energy is needed to remove the lignin and what about the waste produced?
Places get renamed. Look for New Amsterdam on Google Maps some time. The place is still there, is effing huge and famous, but not listed on modern maps.
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Why they changed it I canât sayâŚ
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People just liked it better that way
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Transparent wood? Big deal â Iâve had glow in the dark wood since the late 80âsâŚ
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From previously reading about it, it sounds like the wood-plastic composite is significantly stronger than the plastic by itself. But itâs also wrong to call it âtransparent woodâ - itâs more accurate to say that itâs plastic strengthened through the use of a heavily processed wood product.
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Great. Now we canât see the forrest or the trees.
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Invisible wood!
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Reminds me of TerraSkin. Itâs environmentally friendly! Itâs paper made from stone! Itâs, uh, 25% resin.
If no one else is going to say the obvious then I will:
These folks canât see the forest for the trees.
Youâre welcome.
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Oh no. Thank @Timoth3y.
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Havenât we seen transparent wood here on BB before?
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I would like to make a drum set from out of this. Transparent plastic kits have always been a tradeoff: look cool, but sound awful. Not anymore! 
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Great for entertaining enemies on your 17th story penthouse balcony. Transparent railings! Honest!
Sure coulda used some transparent wood in the seventh grade!
happy?
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yawn⌠stabilized bleached wood
If we are going to compare it to glass then I would say the word these researchers were looking for is âtranslucentâ not transparent.
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Yeah, Iâm going to bet that it changes the sound significantly.
I use a fair amount of acrylic stabilized wood (both open and closed cell), and it definitely has different physical properties than normal wood. Not quite plastic, but not normal wood eitherâŚ
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