Wet Guide

Water competes with the fiber-to-fiber hydrogen bonds, causing them to break and making the paper soft and fragile.

Once wet paper dries, it rarely returns to its original flat state because the bonds reform in new, irregular positions. Techniques for Handling Wet Paper reducing light scattering.

Wet paper becomes translucent or see-through because water fills the air gaps between fibers, reducing light scattering. reducing light scattering.