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"Ebony" is a general term encompassing a number of different species of tree. The most famous is Diospyros ebenum, a small evergreen native to Sri Lanka and India. Since the tree keeps its leaves year round, it's nominally a softwood. In reality, however, the lumber is rock hard an dense enough to sink in water.
Contrast this with balsa wood. The balsa tree is deciduous (thus, technically a hardwood) yet the lumber is light enough for airplane construction.
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Is softwood a type of tree?
timber is not a type of tree...it is a reference to trees before they are cut for lumber
Is fir a hardwood?
Fir, and other pine trees are considered soft woods. fir is soft wood and is cheaper than hard wood.
Which type of timber comes from deciduous trees?
Hardwood comes from deciduous trees. Softwood comes from conifers.
What are the types of natural wood?
Softwoods, Hardwoods and Mixed woods
What is the difference between wood and lumber?
Wood is a hard substance, composing of the stem of branches of a tree of shrub. Lumber is wood- which has been conditioned
What are plants that are sources of lumber?
Softwood trees like pine and fir, and hardwood trees like oak and maple.
What are the 3 classifications that softwood lumber dividd into?
it is classified in three different sections; 1) hard woods, types of woods that shed their leaves in winter 2) softwoods, trees that are coniferous (do not shed their leaves in winter) 3) man made woods, woods of the softwood and hardwood family all tightly compacted into a big sheet.
Is raw ebony available for sale in the US?
I'm not sure what you mean by raw wood. Green wood that hasn't been dried out? Or fresh timber that has not been sawn into lumber? Or just lumber that has not been reclaimed from other completed items? You can purchase ebony lumber from many wood supply sources. It is heavy, hard and expensive, it only grows in Western Africa.
Is ebony a hardwood or a softwood?
its a type of porn
What is darkest wood?
There is also African Blackwood, depending on the cut you can have a deep rich black cut of lumber. If you mean darkest timber then that would be ebony which is black. Ebony
What shade is ebony?
Ebony is a type of wood, but "Ebony" is Black.
Is hemlock a hard wood?
yes hemlock wood is a sofftwood
Is spruce a softwood or a hardwood?
Spruce wood is soft and light, it is marketed with pine and balsam fir as lumber because they are similar in hardness and strength. When you see 2x4 lumber in house building it is usually spruce, it warps easily.
Why is softwood used?
it makes up 80% of are lumber industry
What is the ingredient ebony?
Ebony is a type of wood.
Is yew from hardwood or softwood?
IT is considered a Softwood but it is a good strong wood, and also has an amazingly flexible wood.
What is iron wood?
Ebony. Ebony Wood from an ebony tree is called iron wood because it takes very long to harvest, and takes very long to rot or deteriorate! Ostrya virginiana, a north American decorative hardwood. Definately not Ebony iron wood is NOT ebony, its hornbeam
