Absorption of water by wood

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(79)90381-8

✦ Synopsis

Maumen~ finds that the absorption power varies in different woods, when dried in a vacuum~ between 9"37 per cent. and 174.86 per cent. The maximum, 174"86 per cent., or ¼ of its own weight, is found in chestnut timber. Themoisture contained in wood, in its ordinary state, varies between 4"6.1 per cent. and 13"56 per cent. The absorption power varies but little in different sanlples of the same wood.--Les ~]Iondes.

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