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  2. Wood stabilization - Wikipedia

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    Wood stabilization is a subset of wood preservation processes specifically used by woodworking enthusiasts to alter the material properties of specific wood species for applications within their craft or trade. Examples of wood items which are commonly stabilized include knife handles, pistol grips, straight razors, game calls and jewelry.

  3. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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    Quartersawn wood is thus seen as an acceptable compromise between economical but less-stable flatsawn wood (which, especially in oak, will often display the distinct "cathedral window" grain) and the expensively-wasteful rift sawn wood, which has the straightest grain and thus the greatest stability.

  4. Metzler matrix - Wikipedia

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    The exponential of a Metzler (or quasipositive) matrix is a nonnegative matrix because of the corresponding property for the exponential of a nonnegative matrix. This is natural, once one observes that the generator matrices of continuous-time Markov chains are always Metzler matrices, and that probability distributions are always non-negative.

  5. Engineered wood - Wikipedia

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    Large self-supporting wooden roof built for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Engineered wood, also called mass timber, composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation [1] to form ...

  6. Wood - Wikipedia

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    Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.

  7. Man documents inflated grocery prices in Alaskan hometown ...

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    In the most recent video, Magdanz described his visit to the newest grocery store in Kotzebue, recording some food and drink prices there.. Butter was on sale for $8.14 per pound, a quart of ...

  8. These Democrats aren't dismissing DOGE. It could give Elon ...

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    Some Democrats are dismissing the forthcoming DOGE push to cut wasteful government spending. Others in the party aren't totally writing off what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are selling.

  9. Overlayer - Wikipedia

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    Wood's notation takes the form (| | | | | | | |)where M is the chemical symbol of the substrate, A is the chemical symbol of the overlayer, () are the Miller indices of the surface plane, R and correspond to the rotational difference between the substrate and overlayer vectors, and the vector magnitudes shown are those of the substrate (subscripts) and of the overlayer (subscripts).