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JOURNAL OF WOOD SCIENCE
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 515-519Publisher
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s10086-008-0973-5
Keywords
Unstable state; Micropore structure; HK method; Old wood; Elapsed time
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To investigate the changes in microstructures of wood with elapsed time in the environment, CO(2) adsorption onto dry wood was measured at ice-water temperature (273 K) for samples aged from 0.1 years to over 1000 years. The micropore size distribution was obtained using the Horvath-Kawazoe method. Micropores smaller than 0.6 nm in wood decreased in number with elapsed time in the environment, and a negative correlation was found between cumulative pore volume for pores smaller than 0.6 nm and elapsed time in the environment. Cumulative pore volume in the 1000-year sample was almost half of that in the 0.1- year sample. Micropores smaller than 0.6 nm in wood with a few decades or more of elapsed time increased in number after rewetting and drying. Consequently, microstructures of wood with longer time elapsed in the environment were considered to be more stable, because of longer-term thermal motion and possibly more repeated moisture adsorption and desorption and/or temperature variation in the environment.
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