Penetration of hardwoods by liquids
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Alfred J. Stamm
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Article
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1973
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Springer
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English
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Oven dry highly evacuated sticks of the sapwood of various hardwoods, 40 cm long by 1.0 to f.2 cm in the radial and tangential directions, took up water to the extent of 44 to 82% of saturation by capillary flow in one minute. Heartwood sticks took up 15 to 38% of saturation in one minute. The initi