Claim · model-written summary
Normal wood had greater fibre length (1.4 mm) than tension wood.
- Taxon
- Terminalia superba
Terminalia superbae0 - Outcome
- fibre lengthe4
- Direction
- greatere4
- Value
- 1.4 mme4
- Comparator
- tension woode4
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Verbatim
e0“This study ascertained the physico-mechanical and anatomical properties of Terminalia superba tension wood, in comparison with its normal counterpart”
e4“Normal wood also recorded greater fibre length (1.4 mm) than tension wood (1.2 mm)”
Title
C. Antwi-Boasiako; E.S. Ofosu; M. Glalah Wood Material Science and Engineering 2024. doi:10.1080/17480272.2024.2337149
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Tension wood had higher green moisture content (75 ± 2%) than normal wood.
- Observation Tension wood had lower basic density (562 ± 11 kg/m3) than normal wood.
- Observation Normal wood had a greater modulus of elasticity (11293 ± 227.5) than tension wood.
- Observation Normal wood had a greater modulus of rupture (106 ± 4.5) than tension wood.
- Observation Normal wood had greater compression parallel to grain (65 ± 1.8) than tension wood.
- Observation Normal wood had a greater double wall thickness (66 µm) than tension wood.
- Observation Normal wood had a greater fibre diameter (37 µm) than tension wood.
- Observation Tension wood had wider fibre-lumen diameter (32.24 µm) than normal wood.
- Observation Tension wood had wider vessel diameter (156.80 µm) than normal wood.
- Recommendation Tension wood would substitute for normal wood in light construction works.