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II. THE enormous variety presented by the hundreds of different kinds of woods known or used in different countries depends for the most part on such peculiarities as I have referred to above, together with some others which have not as yet been touched upon. Everybody knows something of the multitudinous uses to which timber is put, and a little reflection will show that these uses are dependent upon certain general properties of the timber. Speaking broadly, the chief properties are its weight, hardness, elasticity, cohesion, and power of resisting strains, &c., in various directions, its durability in air and in water, and so forth; moreover, special uses demand special properties of other kinds also, and the colour, closeness of texture, capacity for receiving polish, &c., come into consideration.
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WARD, H. Timber, and Some of its Diseases 1 . Nature 37, 204–207 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037204a0
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