Seasoned for fireplace wood, deadfall for in a forest
The main cause of wood dry rotting is a brown rot fungi called Serpula lacrymans. These spores get onto wood and slowly eat away at the wood, causing it to slowly rot out.
No wood does not expand when its dry
Dry wood is an insulator
Dry wood is usually easier, but wood will dry much faster when split. If you have the time to let large sections dry first, it will be easier to split, but it may take a year to dry. Wood that is split and stacked to allow air to circulate will be dry and ready to burn in about 5 months.
wood from a store, because most of the time its dry and dry wood burns the best.
Cotton, plastic, wood are 3 examples of insulators
Battle of Dry Wood Creek happened on 1861-09-02.
Different types of wood have different coefficients of friction. As dense, hard, wood will tend to be smoother than a porous, soft, wood.
depending if the wood is dry rotted or old, but if not then no it is not fragile.
Dry Rot
It depends if the wood is damp or dry; if damp, then wood is much better - although still much worse than metals. However, if the wood is dried - oven dry is the technical term - then glass and wood are about the same.
Wet wood, vegetation, and plastics will make a thick, dark smoke that should not be breathed in. Dry wood and dead leaves make a thinner, grayish smoke.