How To Use Heartwood In A Sentence
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With heartwoods, you must shave off the bark and white sapwood with a drawknife to reach the darker, denser wood beneath.
Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps
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It lies next the bark, and after a course of years, sometimes many, as in the case of oaks, sometimes few, as in the case of firs, it becomes hardened and ultimately forms the duramen or heartwood.
Seasoning of Wood
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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 …
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They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.
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Their decay-resistant heartwood is highly valued for construction, and logging in Sequoia National Forest has gone on for over a century.
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Wood heavy, hard, strong, mostly light colored except in old heartwood, which is reddish.
Studies of Trees
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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.
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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
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(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
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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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In the space frame, struts are made of peeler cores - the thin cylinders of heartwood remaining on the lathes after their long blades peel off plywood veneers from logs.
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In some trees a difference in color exists between the outer part of the wood, the sapwood or alburnum, and the inner part, the heartwood or duramen.
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However, ß-thujaplicin is mainly contained in the heartwood oleoresin in some Cupressaceae trees at low levels.
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This is a branch of heartwood, it will serve you better than any other weapon, use it well.
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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 …
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The stairs were of the same beautiful distressed heartwood pine as the upstairs floors and fastened down with fancy bronze button nails.
Bird Cloud
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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 …
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GIBSON: They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.
CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005
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This freestanding bench uses Construction Common or Deck Common redwood grades that have a pleasing mix of heartwood and sapwood.
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Rays radiate from the centre of the trunk, and the heartwood - the inner rings - differs from the outer rings, which are called the sapwood.
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The heartwood tongue and groove pattern lends itself to the soft nature if the interior design.
Scenic Villa Design in Switzerland by GD Architectes
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Only light wood was included in these samples; the chemistry of dark heartwood or disease-stained wood is known to be quite different from light wood.
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It is really imperfect wood, while the duramen or heartwood is the perfect wood; the heartwood of the mature tree was the sapwood of its earlier years.
Seasoning of Wood
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The traditional yew bow of Europe acted as though it were a composite bow, as it was preferably made of a section of yew taken where the sapwood and heartwood joined.
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Construction Common, Deck Common, Merchantable Heart and Merchantable are knotty garden grades of redwood and offer a colorful mix of sapwood and heartwood.
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The older-growth heartwood is very resistant to decay, but the lumber from young trees that are harvested too soon has a lower level of decay resistance.
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The beetles lay their eggs in trees and the resulting larvae bore into the wood, feeding on the tree's cambium, sapwood, and heartwood and impeding the movement of water and nutrients through the tree.
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Because the redwood used years ago came from very old trees, most of the lumber produced was heartwood from the center of the tree, which is disease and rot resistant.
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His saplings were all sapwood, which bends much differently from the heartwood that makes up the majority of the old bows.
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In hardwoods especially, the heartwood coloration is preferred and the sometimes lighter sapwood may be considered a defect and discarded.
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The relative amounts of heartwood and sapwood in a flooring batch may affect the way it accepts stain and finish and, therefore, the finished appearance of the floor.
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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
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Rays radiate from the centre of the trunk, and the heartwood - the inner rings - differs from the outer rings, which are called the sapwood.
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Libby also checked his method by determining the age of heartwood from the trunks of redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens), and of Douglas firs
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 - Presentation Speech
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Construction Common, Deck Common, Merchantable Heart and Merchantable are knotty garden grades of redwood and offer a colorful mix of sapwood and heartwood.
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The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white.
Seasoning of Wood
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In the inner heartwood, these bodies were rarefying and cell walls became impregnated by a brown colour.
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Redwood beauty is typified by rich cinnamon-colored heartwood, cream-colored sapwood, distinctive grain and performance that keeps projects looking good for years.
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The extract from the heartwood is not a dye until it undergoes oxidation into hematein, which is an acid chromogen.
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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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They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it.
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If I remember rightly, the heartwood and sapwood of yew have different properties and if you get them the right way round on the front and back of the longbow you get an exceptionally powerful weapon.
Bowmen in medieval Wales
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I don't know whether a bow that was all heartwood or all sapwood would still work, if not quite as well, or if it wouldn't work at all.
Bowmen in medieval Wales
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The two oldest individuals at Caffey Hill both contained decayed heartwood, so stand maximum ages exceeded these values.
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Fortunately, he accepted me as his Ph.D. student and I began to explore the neoflavonoids found in a piece of heartwood from a Brazilian tree.
Richard J. Roberts - Autobiography
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Decayed heartwood may sufficiently weaken trees enough to increase ice and wind mortality.
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The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white.
Seasoning of Wood
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The sapwood is light brown and the heartwood is dark brown.
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The essential oil is found in greater abundance in the roots and heartwood of mature trees, which necessitates felling.
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The duramen or heartwood is the inner, darker part of the log.
Seasoning of Wood
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A further measure to avoid violent movement in the final carved sculpture is to remove the heartwood from the log, since it shrinks at a different rate from the outer sapwood.
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From the central heartwood to the outer bark it was as solid as a rock - thick healthy wood through and through.
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It possesses a natural composite quality in the elastic sapwood and the more densely ringed heartwood.
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In the inner heartwood, these bodies were rarefying and cell walls became impregnated by a brown colour.
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As a girl, I confused the word heartland with heartwood and so imagined my part of the world as a beautifully grained circle in the middle of America's tree trunk.
Sandra Steingraber: Escape from the Heartland - Atrazine, Susan G. Komen, and KFC
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The straight-gained hardwood has a light to dark brown heartwood tinged with yellow or green.
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The relative amounts of heartwood and sapwood in a flooring batch may affect the way it accepts stain and finish and, therefore, the finished appearance of the floor.
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Yellow-wood is a rare, even endangered species of the eastern U.S., named in pioneer days from its heartwood's striking deep yellow color.
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B Grade is similar to B Heart except that it permits sapwood as well as heartwood.
