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Wood Handbook Glossary

Welcome to the Wood Handbook Glossary, an online vocabulary tool of terminology related to wood as an engineering material.

The glossary contains 402 terms and is part of the larger reference work, Wood Handbook, produced by the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin.

This work is within the Public Domain and the PDF File is available for download at the Forest Products Laboratory site.

How to Cite this Source

Forest Products Laboratory. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-113. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory: 508 p. 2010

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