Suitability of Aquatic Plant Fibers for Handmade Papermaking

Table 4

Measurement for determination of paper quality of selected aquatic plant species.

Species	Tensile strength (kN/m)	Breaking length (m)	Moisture content (%)
Cyperus rotundus	1.69 ± 0.18^a	731.68 ± 72.75^a	10.11 ± 0.04^b
Scirpus grossus	1.52 ± 0.21^a	612.39 ± 34.05^a	13.08 ± 0.41^a
Typha angustifolia	0.94 ± 0.20^b	410.11 ± 82.85^b	13.13 ± 0.11^a

All values are given as mean ± S.E. Different alphabets in the same column of parameter indicate significant difference at < 0.05; that is, a > b.