Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material

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GLOSSARY G–1 Adherend. A body that is held to another body by an adhesive. Adhesion. The state in which two surfaces are held to ...

G–2 General Technical Report FPL–GTR– 190 aries may be indefinitely outlined, and it may have burst and become flattened. (A bli ...

G–3 Glossary Check. A lengthwise separation of the wood that usually extends across the rings of annual growth and commonly resu ...

G–4 General Technical Report FPL–GTR– 190 Cross Break. A separation of the wood cells across the grain. Such breaks may be due t ...

G–5 Glossary Dry Strength. The strength of an adhesive joint deter‑ mined immediately after drying under specified conditions or ...

Fire‑Retardant‑Treated Wood. As specified in building codes, a wood product that has been treated with chemicals by a pressure p ...

to the growth rings. Lumber is considered flat grained when the annual growth rings make an angle of less than 45° with the surf ...

wood from trees to determine age and growth rate. Also used in wood preservation to determine the depth of pen‑ etration of a pr ...

Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL). (See Structural Com‑ posite Lumber.) Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL). (See Structural Com‑ posite L ...

kiln‑dried rough lumber, bolts, cants, or logs. Dimension components include Flat Stock (solid and laminated) for furniture, cab ...

0.3 mm (0.012 in.)), heavier, and more rigid grades of paper are called paperboard. Papreg. Any of various paper products made b ...

or they may alternate, as in the full‑cell and alternating‑pres‑ sure processes. Progressive Kiln. (See Kiln.) Psychrometer. An ...

Second Growth. Timber that has grown after the removal, whether by cutting, fire, wind, or other agency, of all or a large part ...

Sticker Stain—A brown or blue stain that develops in seasoning lumber where it has been in contact with the stickers. Starved Jo ...

temperature attained by the adhesive in the process of curing (adhesive curing temperature) may differ from the tempera‑ ture of ...

Vessel Elements. Wood cells in hardwoods of compara‑ tively large diameter that have open ends and are set one above the other t ...

angles or of veneer in combination with a core of lumber or of reconstituted wood. The usual constructions have an odd number of ...

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INDEX I–1 Accelerated air‑drying, 13‑6 Acid copper chromate (ACC) components, 15‑3 fectiveness and leaching, 15‑3ef retention l ...