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heartwood

[ US /ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːtwʊd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood

How To Use heartwood In A Sentence

  • Rays radiate from the centre of the trunk, and the heartwood - the inner rings - differs from the outer rings, which are called the sapwood.
  • For the left side of the ‘volume’ mature wood was selected and for the right side sapwood, while the fore-edge was made from heartwood; the top surface incorporated cross-sections from branches of various ages while the bottom surface showed a section through the trunk … A
  • For the left side of the ‘volume’ mature wood was selected and for the right side sapwood, while the fore-edge was made from heartwood; the top surface incorporated cross-sections from branches of various ages while the bottom surface showed a section through the trunk … A
  • They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.
  • Their decay-resistant heartwood is highly valued for construction, and logging in Sequoia National Forest has gone on for over a century.
  • Wood heavy, hard, strong, mostly light colored except in old heartwood, which is reddish. Studies of Trees
  • A heartwood is the wood from the center of the tree, the area around the center carries the sap in the tree and is called sap wood.
  • Wood is composed of duramen or heartwood, and alburnum or sapwood, and when dry consists approximately of 49 per cent by weight of carbon, 6 per cent of hydrogen, 44 per cent of oxygen, and 1 per cent of ash, which is fairly uniform for all species. Seasoning of Wood
  • (Fig. 25), which cause serious injury to the sapwood or heartwood, while other trees "girdled" at a different time or season are not injured. Seasoning of Wood
  • Choose Construction Common or Deck Common redwood, grades with pleasing blends of heartwood and sapwood, for a long-lasting and economical deck.
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