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  2. Wood | Properties, Production, Uses, & Facts | Britannica

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  5. Hardwood - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  6. Wood - An introduction to its structure, properties, and …

    WEBNov 12, 2022 · What is wood? You often hear people grumbling about money and all kinds of other things that "don't grow on trees"; the great thing about wood is that it does grow on trees—or, more specifically, in …

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    Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from gymnosperm trees).
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    Softwoods typically come from evergeen (coniferous) trees (those that have needles and cones and retain them year-round, also called gymnosperms. Examples include cedar, cypress, fir, pine, spruce, and redwood. Photo: Left/above: Hardwood comes from deciduous trees like this oak. Its leaves (inset) drop off in the fall and new ones grow in spring.
    Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper. More recently it emerged as a feedstock for the production of purified cellulose and its derivatives, such as cellophane and cellulose acetate .
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    Chart: Wood can be very weak. In tension (for example, stretched horizontally in struts or beams), it's one of the weakest of all common materials. That's why it's more likely to be used in compression (in vertical beams), where it's very much stronger. ( Concrete suffers from the same problem, which it's why it's often reinforced with steel.)
  8. Tree - Anatomy, Organization, Wood | Britannica

    WEBHome Science Plants. The anatomy and organization of wood. types of cells present in hardwoods and softwoods. Wood is characterized by the presence of axial and radial structures derived from the fusiform and ray …