softwood in English

noun
1
the wood from a conifer (such as pine, fir, or spruce) as distinguished from that of broadleaved trees.
The two basic categories of wood used most often in woodworking projects are hardwood and softwood .
2
(in gardening) young pliable growth on shrubs and other plants from which cuttings can be taken.
Unlike softwood cuttings of deciduous plants, where you only take tip cuttings from the ends of the branches, that rule does not apply to hardwood cuttings of deciduous plants.
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1. Blockboard core strips can be hardwood or softwood

2. Five commercially important softwood species, Abies balsamea (L.)

3. Increasing alkaline pulping yield for softwood with metal ions

4. Blackthorn can be easily propagated from softwood cuttings or from seed

5. Commonly mistaken for a softwood, Beefwood is anything but soft

6. Build the Bufflehead nest box with cedar, pine or most any softwood

7. Plants such as butterfly bush, rosemary, and dogwood root well from softwood Cuttings

8. We choose to stock wood Briquettes made from unadulterated hardwood or softwood

9. An acetylated softwood lignin fiber having a diameter of 5 to 100 microns.

10. S-15 Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act R.S.C. 1985 (3d Supp.), c.

11. Softwood Cuttings are made from fresh, new growth, usually in spring or early summer

12. The effects of fibre Coarseness on the papermaking properties of softwood pulps have been demonstrated

13. The fibrous absorbent web of the present invention is an airlaid fibrous web which includes a substantially uniform admixture of hardwood pulp fibers (such as encalyptus fibers) and softwood pulp fibers (such as southern softwood kraft fibers).

14. They prized softwood, however, especially that of silver fir (Abies alba), for construction and shipbuilding.

15. Exact composition varies with refining methods and the age, location, and species of the softwood source.]

16. An Angiosperm is a type of hardwood whereas Gymnosperm is a plant of the type of softwood.

17. Alexandrines, like most parrots, are chewing machines and need lots of softwood toys to keep them happy

18. Proportions by weight are 75% potassium nitrate (known as saltpeter or saltpetre), 15% softwood charcoal, and 10% sulfur.

19. The Alphorn is an instrument that was generally made out of solid softwood, usually from spruce or pine

20. Korea requires all Canadian softwood lumber exports to be kiln dried and heat treated in order to eliminate plant pests.

21. To register, exporters must complete and submit Form B253, Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge - Registration Form, to the following address:

22. Fuel Briquettes can be made of almost any biomass material, including hardwood, softwood, straw, bracken, paper, coffee, canola, etc

23. Replacement bow saw/Bucksaw blades for take down buck saws that are best for sawing in green hardwood or dry softwood

24. Absent a $0.5-billion transfer related to the Softwood Lumber Agreement, subsidies and other transfers would have declined some 17 per cent.

25. In the experiment one-year healthily-growing hardwood branches of bougainvillea and one-year semi-lignified softwood twigs with leaves were selected as cuttings.

26. A current issue between the United States and Canada is the ongoing softwood lumber dispute, as the U.S. alleges that Canada unfairly subsidizes its forestry industry.

27. Softwood fiber was heated at 200 to 500 °C to examine the effects of temperature and residence time on the oil and water adsorbencies of the fiber.

28. Blockboard is one type of engineered compound plywood board where softwood strips are joined edge to edge and bonded together machining often a sandwich structure placing hardwood between them

29. China has become a key alternative market for producers: in 2013, record exports of sawn softwood were made by Canada (6.8 million m3), the US (875,000 m3) and Europe (1.3 million m3).

30. As roots, tubers, rhizomes, stems, or leaves according to the state of development of the parts, or alternatively as dormant, ripe or hardwood Cuttings, semi-hardwood Cuttings, and active, green, immature or softwood Cuttings.

31. In combination with digester liquid from subsequent cooking zones being fed back to the top of the digester, the alkali concentration can be kept low at the beginning of the cooking, typically within 20-35 g/l when cooking softwood.

32. Blockboard is an engineered wood, which is used in making furniture as substitute of plywood.It is wood based board which consists of a core made of softwood wood strips between the two layers of wood veneer (generally one layer of ply).