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THE swelling and shrinkage or ‘working’ of wood under varying atmospheric humidity is an important property of the material, and at most laboratories devoted to the study of wood the measurement of shrinkage is made as a matter of routine on all species. With the view of gaining a further insight into the shrinkage process, measurements have been made here on the shrinkage of very small samples of sitka spruce under conditions where changes in vapour pressure and moisture content could be measured simultaneously with the resulting shrinkage.
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Barkas, W. W., Proc. Phys. Soc., 48, 1 (1936); 49, 237 (1937).
Barkas, W. W., Proc. Phys. Soc., 48, 576 (1936).
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BARKAS, W., GOLDER, H. Relation of Strength of Wood to Shrinkage. Nature 141, 874–875 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141874a0
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