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Hymenaea courbaril. Hymenaea courbaril, the courbaril or West Indian locust, [3] is a hardwood tree common in the Caribbean and Central and South America.As lumber it is frequently used to make furniture, flooring, and decoration.
When testing wood in lumber form, the Janka test is always carried out on wood from the tree trunk (known as the heartwood), and the standard sample (according to ASTM D143) is at 12% moisture content and clear of knots. [3] The hardness of wood varies with the direction of the wood grain. Testing on the surface of a plank, perpendicular to the ...
Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...
The ripe fruit is light to dark brown with small and regularly spaced light glands, dry, indehiscent, leathery legume of 9–20 cm (3.5–7.9 in) long, 2–6.5 cm (0.79–2.56 in) wide and 2–4.3 cm (0.79–1.69 in) thick, with a rounded base, a slightly pointed tip, and a straight or wavy margin.
Hügelkultur bed prior to being covered with soil. Hügelkultur is a German word meaning mound culture or hill culture. [3] Though the technique is alleged to have been practiced in German and Eastern European societies for hundreds of years, [1] [4] the term was first published in a 1962 German gardening booklet by Herrman Andrä. [5]
The Bills (11-3) are two games behind the 13-1 Kansas City Chiefs for the No. 1 seed in the AFC with three weeks to go, though Buffalo has the tiebreaker, thanks to its 30-21 win on Nov. 17.
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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 ...