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  2. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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    Apart from structural wood preservation measures, there are a number of different chemical preservatives and processes (also known as timber treatment, lumber treatment or pressure treatment) that can extend the life of wood, timber, and their associated products, including engineered wood. These generally increase the durability and resistance ...

  3. Thermally modified wood - Wikipedia

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    Thermally modified wood is engineered wood that has been modified by a controlled pyrolysis process of wood being heated to (> 180 °C) in an oxygen free atmosphere. This process changes to the chemical structures of wood's cell wall components lignin , cellulose and hemicellulose which decreases its hygroscopy and thus increases dimensional ...

  4. Chromated copper arsenate - Wikipedia

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    It is used to impregnate timber and other wood products, especially those intended for outdoor use, in order to protect them from attack by microbes and insects. Like other copper-based wood preservatives, it imparts a greenish tint to treated timber. CCA was invented in 1933 by Indian chemist Sonti Kamesam, and patented in Britain in 1934.

  5. Yakisugi - Wikipedia

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    Traditional houses in Naoshima, Kagawa clad with yakisugi panels Close-up view of charred yakisugi board Yakisugi treated wood used in a box for sunglasses. Yakisugi (Japanese: 焼 杉, lit. ' burnt Japanese cedar ' [1]) is a traditional, very old Japanese method of wood preservation.

  6. Pinus radiata - Wikipedia

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    The wood is normally kiln dried to 12% moisture in 6 m (19 ft 8 in) long, clear lengths. It is available treated with a range of chemical salts, or untreated. Chemical salt treatment is well proven and such timber is frequently used in the ground as posts and poles as part of structures such as retaining walls and pole houses.

  7. Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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    Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood particularly in Canada) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using ...

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