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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 Average preservative uptake (kg m−3) by aspen and birch boards

From: Evaluation of preservative distribution in thermally modified European aspen and birch boards using computed tomography and scanning electron microscopy

Wood species

Tung oil

Pine tar

Beckers

Control aspen

267.07 a

283.59 a

371.18 a

TM-aspen

245.00 a

250.87 a

349.82 a

Control birch

241.67 a

247.10 a

269.17 b

TM-birch

67.58 b

95.34 b

118.68 c

  1. TM thermally modified
  2. Mean values followed by different letter within a column indicate that there is a significant difference (P ≤ 0.05) as determined by the Duncan’s multiple range test