Editing Particle board (section)

{{Short description|Glued wood product}}
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[[File:Particleboard.jpg|right|thumb|Particleboard with [[Wood veneer|veneer]]]]

'''Particle board''', also known as '''particleboard''' or '''chipboard''', is an [[engineered wood]] product, belonging to the wood-based panels, manufactured from [[wood chips]] and a synthetic, mostly formaldehyde-based [[resin]] or other suitable binder, which is pressed under a hot press, batch- or continuous- type, and produced.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wood based panel producers in Poland |url=http://sppd.pl/en/mdf,-ldf,-hdf.html |publisher=sppd.pl}}</ref> Particle board is often confused with [[oriented strand board]] (OSB, also known as flakeboard, or waferboard), a different type of [[fiberboard]] that uses machined wood flakes and offers more strength.