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Temperate softwoods (left column) and hardwoods (right column), selected to highlight...
USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
Six tropical hardwoods, selected to emphasize the range of natural variation in colour...
USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
Map showing the geographic distribution of the world's forests, differentiated by...
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Harvester at work on a tree plantation in Finland.
Embassy of Finland
Forwarder with a load of logs for transport from the felling site.
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Band saw breaking a log down into lumber.
Courtesy of Dr. George Tsoumis
Basic log-sawing patterns. Live and cant sawing may be done with a frame saw for...
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Three-ply all-veneer plywood and three-ply, lumber core plywood.
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Three types of particleboard (left to right): single-layer particleboard, waferboard,...
© Steve Matteo
Two common types of compressed fibreboard: hardboard (left) and medium-density fibreboard...
© Steve Matteo
Kiln for drying wood under controlled conditions of temperature and humidity.
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A transverse slice of tree trunk, depicting major features visible to the unaided...
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Transverse section of eastern white pine, a softwood, under low magnification, showing...
Courtesy of Michael Clayton, University of Wisconsin
Transverse section of northern red oak, a ring-porous hardwood, under low magnification....
Courtesy of Michael Clayton, University of Wisconsin
Transverse section of basswood, a diffuse-porous hardwood, under low magnification....
Courtesy of Michael Clayton, University of Wisconsin
Types of cells present in hardwoods and softwoods.
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Stringlike microfibrils comprising the central portion of the pit membrane of a softwood...
Courtesy of Dr. George Tsoumis
Distortions in sawn wood due to shrinkage and swelling. At left are shown the initial...
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Log burning in a fire. Burning wood is an example of a chemical reaction in which...
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Harvesting timber in Kielder Water & Forest Park, northwestern Northumberland, northeastern...
The Boy that time forgot
Cross section of a tree trunk. Wood is secondary xylem produced by growth of the...
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