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softwoodTimber obtained from coniferous trees (mainly of the pine and fir families). With the exception of bald cypress, tamarack, and larch, softwood trees are evergreens. Softwood is mostly obtained from the Baltic, Scandinavia, and North America and is the source of about 80% of the world's production of timber. The term sometimes imprecisely means all soft and hard woods used as construction wood in temperate regions. Softwoods of longleaf pine, Douglas fir, and yew are much harder in the mechanical sense than several hardwoods. softwood 1. the open-grained wood of any of numerous coniferous trees, such as pine and cedar, as distinguished from that of a dicotyledonous tree 2. any tree yielding this wood How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We tentatively attributed this behavior, significantly different from that of softwood pulps, to the milder conditions used in the pulping and/or to topochemical effects rather than to differences in the chemical structure of the glucuronoxylans from hardwoods and softwoods. Lathams is a specialist national importer and distributor of wood-based panel products and processed quality hardwoods and softwoods. The biggest advantage that softwoods have over hardwoods is that they rarely warp or become distorted with changes in moisture. |
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