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Rates of swelling of wood cell walls in water and alcohol suggest that the mechanism of uptake of liquid and vapour involves two stages—wetting or adsorption at capillary surfaces followed by molecular penetration and swelling of the solid phase.
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CHRISTENSEN, G. Sorption and Swelling within Wood Cell Walls. Nature 213, 782–784 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213782a0
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