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How does water distort wood?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

The structure of wood is not even, the different seasonal conditions as the tree grows means that some parts of the wood structure are more dense than other parts. This means that as moisture builds up in wood, it effects some areas of the wood more than others, causing more expansion in the cells that are less dense. This uneven expansion throughout the wood may then go on to cause warping and bowing in the wood as well overall expansion due to the water retention.

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