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  2. Timber rafting - Wikipedia

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    Rafting to Vancouver, British Columbia Canada (August 2006). Raftsmen in Northern Finland in the 1930s Timber rafting on the Willamette River (May 1973).. Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water.

  3. Lignum vitae - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Ebony - Wikipedia

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    Cross-section of an unprocessed piece of ebony wood. Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree. A few Diospyros species, such as macassar and mun ebony, are dense enough to sink in water.

  5. Mark Fischenich: Ask Us: Answer elusive for why a ... - AOL

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    Jan. 23—Q: We're always wondering, why does wood burn in squares? You sit around any kind of a wood fire, you notice the wood always burns in squares. We're always wondering why.

  6. Underwater logging - Wikipedia

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    After this occurs and once the tubes are securely in place, a hookah compressor and a low-pressure hose re-inflates them so that they form a tight grip around the floating logs. This process gives the logs more buoyancy and gives loggers easier access points to harvest them. As many tubes that are needed are used to float the logs. [4]

  7. Tea leaf paradox - Wikipedia

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    The tea leaves collect in the middle and the bottom, instead of along the rim. The blue line is the secondary flow that pushes the tea leaves to the middle of the bottom. Visualization of secondary flow in river bend model (A. Ya. Milovich, 1913, [1] flow from right to left). Near-bottom streamlines are marked with dye injected by a pipette.

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1275 on Sunday, December 15 ...

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    SPOILERS BELOW—do not scroll any further if you don't want the answer revealed. The New York Times. Today's Wordle Answer for #1275 on Sunday, December 15, 2024.

  9. Wood science - Wikipedia

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    Wood science [1] is the scientific field which predominantly studies and investigates elements associated with the formation, the physical and chemical composition, ...