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What is the lightest hardwood?
It is generally accepted that Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as "Balsa", is the lightest hardwood of any usefulness. Yes, Balsa is a hardwood. It also has a high strength to weight ratio, which is why it is so popular for model building, boats, and airplanes.
What is the name of trees that produce hard wood?
That would depend on the type of hardwood, but generally, the name comes from the tree type. Hardwoods such as Red Cedar, Elm, Cherry, Balsa, Teak, Mahogany, Maple and Oak. There are hundreds of different trees hardwood can come from, despite their weight, such as Cedar and Balsa. Hardwood is measured in density.
Is box elder soft wood or hard wood?
The division of trees into hardwood and softwood by a botanic measure is misleading. e.g. balsa is a hardwood! This old style division is in fact based on the seed reproduction - flowering or coniferous. A better descriptor is angiosperm or gymnosperm. Gymnosperm have 'naked' seeds - your conifers. And directly to your question, as a flowering tree, box elder is an angiosperm - or hardwood in the obsolete naming.
Is the baobab tree hard or soft wood?
It is a hardwood. I have long understood it to be as simple as, if the tree never loses it's needles/leaves (is an evergreen), it is a softwood. Even Balsa is a hardwood. If the leaves drop each year due to cold, it is a hardwood. However, I don't know if trees in tropical climates ever lose their leaves. So I learned that hardwoods surround their seed with some sort of covering (such as chestnut, walnut and apple trees) whereas evergreens (softwoods) let their seeds drop to the ground.
Can balsa trees be grown locally?
Balsa trees are native to southern Brazil, Bolivia and north to southern Mexico. They can be grown in Hawaii and Guam and are related to the cotton plant. Ecuador supplies 95% of the commercial balsa. So to get back to your question, unless you live where the balsa tree can be grown, it is NOT locally grown.
What are soft and hardwood?
a hardwood that is soft and lightweight is balsa wood
What is the lightest hardwood?
It is generally accepted that Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as "Balsa", is the lightest hardwood of any usefulness. Yes, Balsa is a hardwood. It also has a high strength to weight ratio, which is why it is so popular for model building, boats, and airplanes.
What is an example of a hardwood?
Ash Balsa Ebony
What kind of material is balsa wood?
Surprising though it may seem, balsa is a hardwood. The actual hardness or density of the wood has little to do with the classification. - Generally if a tree is an angiosperm (bearing broad leaves and flowers) , then it's a hardwood.
Is a beech a hardwood or a softwood?
Beech wood comes from a flowering tree so it is a hardwood. Not all hardwoods are hard though balsa wood is a hardwood!
Is the wood balsa a softwood or hardwood?
Odd as it may seem, though balsa is the lightest of all known woods and is very soft, it is a hardwood. Woods are not categorized into hardwoods and softwoods not by the measured hardness or rigidity of the wood, but by the type of tree they come from.
Is chipboard a hardwood?
No chip board is a combination of chips of wood not necessarily hardwood and glue. Hardwood is a tightly grained timber such as eucalyptus or balsa wood. the term hardwood has nothing to do with the hardness of the timber it relates to the closeness of the grain.
Are all soft woods softer than hard woods?
No, this description is old and now meaningless. Balsa is a hardwood!
What is a very light color wood?
Balsa is the lightest Hardwood But it is soft
Is spruse a hardwood?
No. It's a softwood. The difference isn't a matter of wood density. Softwoods come from needle-leaf trees, and hardwoods come from broadleaf trees. The softest wood in the world is balsa, which is extremely soft and lightweight...but because balsa trees are broadleaf, balsa is a hardwood. On the other hand, Radiata pine is roughly as hard as mahogany - which is unquestionably a hardwood - but because it's a needle-leaf tree it is a softwood.
What is the name of trees that produce hard wood?
That would depend on the type of hardwood, but generally, the name comes from the tree type. Hardwoods such as Red Cedar, Elm, Cherry, Balsa, Teak, Mahogany, Maple and Oak. There are hundreds of different trees hardwood can come from, despite their weight, such as Cedar and Balsa. Hardwood is measured in density.
Does hardwood and soft wood refer to the weight of the wood?
NO basically hardwood trees typically shed their leaves annually , where as softwoods are evergreen. hence balsa wood is a hard wood but i wouldn't use it in structural application
