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US
/ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːtwʊd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːtwʊd/ ]
NOUN
- 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.