The heartwood is a red or pinkish color, the sapwood, which is considerable, is a creamy white. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
GIBSON: They're a nice, knot-free heartwood, meaning that there's no outer layer of sapwood on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005] Reference
Sapwood yellowish white, heartwood reddish to brown. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The heartwood side must always lie towards the concrete. From Wordnik.com. [3. General Construction of Formwork] Reference
The sapwood whitish, the heartwood "oak" to reddish brown. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The reddish-brown heartwood is dense and difficult to cut. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The sapwood is yellowish white; the heartwood orange brown. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The duramen or heartwood is the inner, darker part of the log. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Thick, red heartwood, changing to reddish brown when seasoned. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The fungi enter these cracks and work their way to the heartwood. From Wordnik.com. [The School Book of Forestry] Reference
The wood itself contains very little true sap and the heartwood none. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Formerly, the custom has been to throw away the heartwood as useless. From Wordnik.com. [The School Book of Forestry] Reference
Chemical examination of the heartwood of various West-Pakistani trees. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
The heartwood is generally heavier and of deeper color than the sapwood. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Many of the fungi cannot live unless they reach the heartwood of the tree. From Wordnik.com. [The School Book of Forestry] Reference
The distinction between the heartwood and sapwood of this species is marked. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It was significant that practically all of the checking occurred in the heartwood. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The heartwood is red when first exposed, but in sunlight it fades to reddish brown. From Wordnik.com. [8 Industrial Products] Reference
Sapwood dries faster than heartwood, and pine more rapidly than oak or other hardwoods. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The heartwood is fairly durable when exposed to the weather or in contact with the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Sap - and heartwood distinct, the former lighter, the latter a dull grayish brown or red. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The same year's growth which is sapwood in one part of a disk may be heartwood in another. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Druvenmaquez sniffed of a bouquet that was growing directly upon the Home‑tree's heartwood. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
The timber is hard, heavy, and strong, and the heartwood is durable in contact with the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
You could see it broken now, an oval of pale heartwood where the branch was torn from the trunk. From Wordnik.com. [Gansevoort Ridge] Reference
The color of the heartwood is yellowish or russet brown; that of the distinct sapwood much lighter. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Because it takes up so much moisture and plant food, sapwood rots much more quickly than heartwood. From Wordnik.com. [The School Book of Forestry] Reference
In white oak the vessels of the heartwood especially are closed, very generally by ingrowths called tyloses. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
In the sapwood of pine it occurs in all three forms; in the heartwood only in the second form, it merely saturates the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Sapwood light, heartwood darker brown, and is readily distinguishable from the sapwood, which very early turns into heartwood. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
They then enter the wood and continue their excavations deep into the sapwood or heartwood until they attain their normal size. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
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