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wood density

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006843

As usually applied to wood of normal cellular form, density is the mass per unit volume of wood substance enclosed within the boundary surfaces of a wood-plus-voids complex. It is variously expressed as pounds per cubic foot, kilograms per cubic meter, or grams per cubic centimeter at a specified moisture content.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006843
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectResearch, Technology, Methods
ReferencesForest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsowood physical properties; wood volume; wood volume loss; close-grained wood; coarse-grained wood
TranslationsSpanish: densidad de la madera
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006843",
  "term": "wood density",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "As usually applied to wood of normal cellular form, density is the mass per unit volume of wood substance enclosed within the boundary surfaces of a wood-plus-voids complex. It is variously expressed as pounds per cubic foot, kilograms per cubic meter, or grams per cubic centimeter at a specified moisture content.",
  "subject": "Research, Technology, Methods",
  "see_also": [
    "wood physical properties",
    "wood volume",
    "wood volume loss",
    "close-grained wood",
    "coarse-grained wood"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "densidad de la madera"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/wood-density/"
}

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