"wood-wool" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1894, Medical Summary - Volume 16, page 43",
          "text": "The writer has frequently made use of Hartmann's wood-wool as a dressing in his operations on the brain, and as he also induced a number of colleagues to observe its effect, he can speak from experience.",
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          "ref": "2002, Tom Woolley, Sam Kimmins, Rob Harrison, Green Building Handbook",
          "text": "The raw material for wood-wool boards is likely to be 'waste' from other wood processes.",
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          "ref": "2008, Alan Thompson, Claude Goodchild, Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps",
          "text": "If you cannot get hay or wood-wool, several thicknesses of old blankets will do for the nest, and cut-up paper will do for the floor.",
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          "ref": "2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals",
          "text": "These individuals also used wood-wool and leaves to Absorb water from the floor or from a container, after which they sucked the water out of the sponging tool.",
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        "Alternative form of wood wool"
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          "ref": "1894, Medical Summary - Volume 16, page 43",
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          "ref": "2008, Alan Thompson, Claude Goodchild, Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps",
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          "text": "These individuals also used wood-wool and leaves to Absorb water from the floor or from a container, after which they sucked the water out of the sponging tool.",
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