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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 3 Mechanical properties of untreated and treated samples

From: Effects of heat treatment on water-soluble extractives and color changes of merbau heartwood

 

Moisture content (%)

Number of replication

df

MOR (MPa)

MOE (MPa)

Mean

Standard deviation

t statistic

Sig. (2-tailed)

Mean

Standard deviation

t statistic

Sig. (2-tailed)

Control

12.0

15

 

137.3

26.5

  

13191

1155

  

Heat treated

8.0

15

14

96.7

14.0

4.36

0.02

11493

1201

2.54

0.03

  1. t statistics and Sig. values were generated from a two-tailed t test on two paired samples using SPSS 19.0