Tensile properties of single oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) fibre

Sains Malaysiana

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 525-529

  Yusoff, Mohd Zuhri Mohamed ^a   Salit, Mohd Sapuan ^a   Ismail, Napsiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Empty fruit bunch; Natural fibre; Tensile properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049085904     PISSN: 01266039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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