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heartwood
heartwood The dead, woody centre of the trunk of a tree. The cells become impregnated with various organic compounds which cause a change in colour, so that this tissue is distinguished easily from the remainder of the wood.
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NATURAL DECAY RESISTANCE OF HEARTWOOD FROM DEAD, STANDING YELLOW-CEDAR TREES: LABORATORY EVALUATIONS.
Magazine article from: Forest Products Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...degrades, leaving columns of essentially heartwood standing like ghosts in the forest until...characterize the natural durability of heartwood from dying and dead yellow-cedar trees...were to characterize the durability of heartwood in living and dead stems using standard...
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Influence of site on sapwood and heartwood ratios of Turkish calabrian pine.
Magazine article from: Forest Products Journal; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...influence of site factor on the sapwood and heartwood ratios of Turkish calabrian pine (Pinus...results indicated that the sapwood and heartwood ratios of the calabrian pine wood grown...percent, respectively. The highest heartwood ratio (8.33%) was determined for...
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Holding out hope at Heartwood
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 3/29/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...03-29-2009 Holding out hope at Heartwood Byline: Bob Keyes by Bob Keyes staff...News These should be heady times at Heartwood College of Art, the little-college...Maine State Board of Education approved Heartwood's plan to offer a low-residency master...
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Models for predicting vertical profiles of heartwood diameter in mature Scots pine.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Forest Research; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...and many other European countries the heartwood of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L...increase the risk of decay. While the heartwood of Scots pine is regarded as moderately...made from Scots pine consist of a mix of heartwood and sapwood. A board consisting of wood...
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The influence of irrigation and fertilization on heartwood and sapwood contents in 18-year-old Eucalyptus globulus trees.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Forest Research; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...trees was assessed in relation to heartwood content, accumulation of extractives...of growth (IL). Within the tree, heartwood content decreased from the base upwards...height for IL and C trees, respectively. Heartwood volume represented 65.6% and 55...
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Heartwood Center Announces Launch of 2009 Women And Cancer Program.
PR Newswire; 3/10/2009; 681 words
; ...CHICAGO, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Heartwood Center today announced that it has launched...of this year, making available all of Heartwood's services free of charge to a number...said Nancy Floy, Executive Director of Heartwood Center. "Without it, and the State...
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Sawing simulation of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stems for production of heartwood-containing components.
Magazine article from: Forest Products Journal; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Naturally durable heartwood products have smaller dimensional...production of products containing heartwood from maritime pine (Pinus pinaster...internal knot architecture, and heartwood. Stems were used as raw material...
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The relationship between site and tree characteristics and the presence of wet heartwood in black spruce in the boreal forest of Quebec, Canada.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Forest Research; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Abstract: Wet heartwood in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill...try to avoid harvesting stands with wet heartwood, but no relationship has been yet established between the incidence of wet heartwood and tree or site characteristics. To...
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Comparison of fixation rates of earlywood, latewood, sapwood, and heartwood of CCA-treated Douglas-fir, southern pine, and eastern larch. (Solid Wood Products).(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Forest Products Journal; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...sapwood), whole sapwood, and whole heartwood of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii...species. CCA also fixed more rapidly in heartwood than in sapwood in all species. Generally...comparative CCA fixation of sapwood and heartwood. Even though most treated wood contains...
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Occurrence, proportion, and vertical distribution of red heartwood in paper birch.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Forest Research; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...brown-, discolored wood known as red heartwood. Its occurrence, proportion, and vertical...of 18 trees showing occurrence of red heartwood at stump height were felled, and 5 cm...cut at every 0.5 m of height. Red heartwood volume, proportion, and vertical distribution...
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heartwood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
heartwood the central, woody core of a tree...conduction of water and dissolved minerals; heartwood is usually denser and darker in color...Before the synthesis of aniline dyes, the heartwood of several tropical trees (sold collectively...
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Ebony
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...beautiful wood. Only the black or brown heartwood is used commercially. There are more...persimmon (Diospyrus virginiana ), whose heartwood is not a full black and does not have...source of the most desirable, jet-black heartwood. It comes from the species Diospyrus...
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rosewood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of several species of tropical trees, especially for the heartwood of certain leguminous trees of the genus Dalbergia of the...close to extinction. It is obtained from the purplish-black heartwood of old trees, is rather oily, fragrant—whence...
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sapwood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...recognizable by its texture and color; it is softer and lighter than the inner heartwood . As the tree grows in diameter, the innermost layers of sapwood become heartwood, and new sapwood is produced on the outside of the woody column. See wood...
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Cardinal, Tantoo 1950(?)–(Tantoo Martin, Tantoo Martin–Cardinal)
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...1994. Turtle Mother, Tecumseh: The Last Warrior, TNT, 1995. Nellie, Grand Avenue, HBO, 1996. Violet Boucher, Heartwood, The Family Channel, 1998. Mary, Navigating the Heart, Lifetime, 2000. Aunt Mary, "The Lost Child," Hallmark Hall...
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