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There are various types of maple and pine each with its own characteristics but the main difference in characteristics is that maple is hard and fine grained whereas pine is relatively soft and coarse grained. There is a list of various types of wood and their characteristics at `Properties and Uses of Woods' - http://www.inquirewithin.biz/Vol1/Woods/wood_properties.htm.
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What types of wood are maple and pine wood classified as?
Maple is a hard wood (from a leafed tree) and pine is a soft wood (from a conifer). In this case both wood also have the described character (hard vs soft) not always the case.
Which wood is most dense maple pine or oak?
Maple is the hardest of those woods. Oak is a hardwood also but not a dense as Maple. Pine is a softwood and thusly not near as strong or dense a Maple
What is the difference between pine and pine trees?
a maple tree is vascular and a pine tree is nonvasclar
What is the difference between pine wood and teak wood?
one is pine and one is teak....
What is the difference between coniferous and non coniferous wood?
The difference between coniferous and non-coniferous wood lies in cone-bearing wood coming from trees that produce needles such as pine and spruce species. Non-coniferous wood comes from trees that produce leaves such as maple, oak and apple.
Can you give me 5 types of hard wood an soft wood?
Oak Walnut Cherry Ash Maple Sugar Pine Redwood Sitka Spruce Cedar White Pine
Name four tree which provide wood for furniture?
Pine Teak Oak Maple Mahogany
What are some types of wood in the forest?
There are many types. The main ones are Maple, Oak, Pine, and Locust.
What are some of the examples of wood?
Wood is named by the type of tree that it comes from. Maple, oak, pine, poplar, chesnut, walnut, cherry, etc.
How is a pine tree and maple tree the same?
...They're not the same. Maple trees are like regular trees and pine trees are Christmas trees. Maple trees produce syrup that you can eat. Where-as pine trees make sap but you can't eat that.
Which wood is more durable for a butcher's block to store knives, maple or pine?
Maple would be the more durable choice as it is a harder wood than pine. This is important because the repeated insertion of knives into the block can cut grooves in the block where bacteria can fester leading to big problems in the future.
Is there a pine that is hardwood?
Pine is considered a softwood. As a general rule conifers are softwood and deciduas trees are hardwood. This is not always the case but there are not many exceptions.
