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He was chopping wood in the yard. The house was built of wood but faced with brick. A flute is made of wood or metal in three jointed sections. In cheap furniture, plastic is often used to simulate wood. Screw this piece of wood to the wall.

Wood, the principal strengthening and nutrient-conducting tissue of trees and other plants and one of the most abundant and versatile natural materials. It is strong in relation to its weight, is insulating to heat and electricity, and has desirable acoustic properties.

The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.

Wood Identification Guide A common-sense, step by step guide to help point you in the right direction and start identifying wood.

Reports on latest advances in areas such as wood formation, chemical composition, property relations, and microbiological degradation. Topics related to wood technology include machining, gluing, finishing, composite technology, wood modification, and pulp and biorefinery products conversion.

Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. Being a natural material, it is characterized as an organic material – a natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin and hemicelluloses that resists compression. [1][2]