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The American Wood Protection Association (AWPA) recommends that all treated wood be accompanied by a Consumer Information Sheet (CIS), to communicate safe handling and disposal instructions, as well as potential health and environmental hazards of treated wood.
The species is threatened by habitat loss, and so is under second-class national protection in China. In the past, wood from this tree, referred to as nanmu in China, was so valuable that only royal families could afford their use. Notably, whole logs of Phoebe zhennan wood were used to create pillars for the Forbidden City. Zhennan wood grain ...
Thermally modified wood is engineered wood that has been modified by a controlled pyrolysis process of wood being heated to (> 180 °C) in an oxygen free atmosphere. This process changes to the chemical structures of wood's cell wall components lignin , cellulose and hemicellulose which decreases its hygroscopy and thus increases dimensional ...
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Ankit Ajmera Lumber Liquidators (LL), facing U.S. government probes over claims of dangerous levels of a cancer-causing substance in its flooring ...
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reassured members of Congress on Thursday that the "upsurge" in respiratory illness in China is not from "a new or novel pathogen."
In a surprise move, the new chief scientist at the World Health Organization backed a fact-finding mission to China despite his own doubts that COVID-19 escaped from an institute for virology in ...
One of the early treatments to "fireproof lumber", which retard fires, was developed in 1936 by the Protexol Corporation, in which lumber is heavily treated with salt. [36] Wood does not deteriorate simply because it gets wet. When wood breaks down, it is because an organism is eating it. Preservatives work by making the food source inedible to ...
A term for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 that is generally associated with xenophobia related to the pandemic; Plant viruses affecting species in the potato/tomato family: Clerodendrum golden mosaic China virus; Tomato leaf curl China virus; Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus; Chinese virus (politics) - critique of China's influence in politics