Lumber

Lumber

Timber after it has been sawed and split into planks or other smaller components that can be used as building material.

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Correction

Building materials; Lumber

Species - An adjustment of the readings of the resistance-type electrical moisture metre to compensate for different species of wood.

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 1994

Building materials; Lumber

This convention calls for signatory countries to combat desertification, through halting or reversing deforestation and taking drought mitigation measures.

Raised grain

Building materials; Lumber

Roughened surface of lumber and other wood products, particularly softwood, after planing, caused by the projection of earlywood or latewood above the surface.

Water vapour

Building materials; Lumber

The invisible, gaseous form of water. The amount of vapour present in a body of air is expressed either in terms of absolute humidity or relative humidity.

Slope of grain

Building materials; Lumber

In lumber and other wood products, the ratio of deviation of the grain from the long axis of a piece to the distance along the edge that this deviation occurs.

Diagonal grain

Building materials; Lumber

Lumber in which the annual rings are at an angle with the axis of a piece as a result of sawing at an angle with the bark of the log. A form of cross grain.

Monoculture

Building materials; Lumber

An environment that has a single species of animal or plant dominant, usually associated with the artificial environments created by intensive agriculture