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Question
A timber merchant bought 2 logs of wood from, a forest & named them A & B, The log A was 50 year old & B was 20 years old. Which log of wood will last longer for the merchant? Why?
Solution
- In wood, the older it is, the stronger it becomes.
- Log A - Which was 50 years old is stronger and it will last longer.
- In a tree the central part of the wood will be darker in colour, dead in nature known as Heartwood or Duramen, and the outer sad wood is lighter in colour, living and conducting water.
- In the central Heartwood the conduction is blocked by the formation of tyloses from the nearby parenchyma cells, and dead.
- In the fully developed tyloses, starch crystals, resins, gums, oils tannins and coloured substances are found and it becomes very hard and durable.
- It is more resistant to the attack of microbes and insects like termites.
- Older woods have more heartwood than sapwood.
- Here log ‘A’ is older, has more heartwood and it is stronger and will last longer.
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