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The whitish interior is the wood. The central, dark hollow tube contained the pith which disappeared with the ageing of the plant. The useful part of this plant is the wood (secondary-xylem) of the stem. This wood is often mistaken as the pith. [2] The wood of Aeschynomene is among the world's lightest. [3] Shola grows wild in marshy ...
Pith wood is a cleaning tool used in watchmaking to clean watch parts [6]: 144 and tools. It is used to remove oil from the tips of tools to prevent the contamination of watch movements. A pith wood consists of a piece of pith (such as elder [6]: 281 or mullein [7]).
[4] [37] The spongy wood, often mistakenly termed pith, is lighter than cork, yet very resistant to rot. [14] Unlike pith, it contains thick tree rings. It is extremely lightweight and soft. [20] The trunk wood is traditionally used to make floats for fishing nets, and used in raft, canoe [1] [11] [12] and boat construction, for example around ...
Tung oil has been used for hundreds of years in China, where it was used as a preservative for wood ships. The oil penetrates the wood, and then hardens to form an impermeable hydrophobic layer up to 5 mm into the wood. As a preservative it is effective for exterior work above and below ground, but the thin layer makes it less useful in practice.
Natural bitumen pitch, from the tar pit above the McKittrick Oil Field, Kern County, California. Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer which can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, [1] or plants. Pitch produced from petroleum may be called bitumen or asphalt, while plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin in its solid ...
Medullary rays, also known as vascular rays or pith rays, are cellular structures found in some species of wood. They appear as radial planar structures, perpendicular to the growth rings, which are visible to the naked eye. In a transverse section they appear as radiating lines from the centre of the log.
A finishing oil is a vegetable oil used for wood finishing. These finishes are a historical finish for wood, primarily as means of making it weather or moisture resistant. Finishing oils are easily applied, by wiping with a cloth. They are also simply made, by extraction from plant sources with relatively simple processing.
Parenchyma is a versatile ground tissue that generally constitutes the "filler" tissue in soft parts of plants. It forms, among other things, the cortex (outer region) and pith (central region) of stems, the cortex of roots, the mesophyll of leaves, the pulp of fruits, and the endosperm of seeds.