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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 4 The total colour differences ΔE* of tropical woods (kusia, bangkirai, massaranduba, jatobá) finished with the Wood Denmark vegetable oils (transparent, teak, bangkirai) during natural weathering in an exterior

From: Effect of vegetable oils on the colour stability of four tropical woods during natural and artificial weathering

Vegetable oil

Time of weathering (month)

ΔE* (total colour difference of wood)

Kusia

Bangkirai

Massaranduba

Jatobá

Transparent

1

7.4 (0.8)–

4.8 (0.9)–

11.3 (2.0)–

9.6 (2.2)–

3

16.1 (1.7)–

17.5 (2.0)–

13.1 (0.6)–

11.8 (1.5)–

6

22.7 (1.8)–

19.9 (1.3)–

17.1 (0.5)–

15.8 (0.8)–

9

26.9 (1.4)–

21.7 (1.5)–

20.6 (0.6)–

20.2 (0.3)–

12

29.7 (0.6)–

23.7 (1.1)–

23.8 (0.5)–

24.4 (0.7)–

24

37.3 (0.5)–

26.9 (1.6)–

24.3 (1.6)–

22.9 (0.4)–

36

30.6 (0.3)–

23.1 (1.3)–

22.9 (1.0)–

26.3 (0.1)–

Teak

1

3.7 (0.8) a

9.1 (0.8) a

13.9 (0.6) b

4.4 (1.2) a

3

8.9 (0.8) a

9.7 (1.0) a

15.0 (0.4) c

5.8 (1.3) a

6

14.7 (0.6) a

10.3 (1.1) a

18.3 (0.9) d

9.8 (0.9) a

9

17.9 (1.8) a

10.3 (1.4) a

21.8 (1.0) d

12.1 (1.8) a

12

19.5 (1.7) a

11.2 (1.8) a

25.5 (0.7) c

15.2 (2.5) a

24

25.7 (1.8) a

16.0 (1.7) a

29.2 (0.6) a

19.7 (1.9) a

36

30.3 (1.0) d

21.7 (1.1) d

27.6 (0.9) a

30.1 (0.2) a

Bangkirai

1

4.4 (0.3) a

15.6 (0.8) a

12.2 (1.1) d

10.6 (1.5) d

3

9.1 (0.9) a

15.5 (0.5) c

10.5 (0.8) b

10.6 (0.8) d

6

13.2 (0.5) a

15.9 (0.6) a

12.6 (0.9) a

14.0 (1.1) c

9

16.6 (0.4) a

15.8 (0.5) a

13.7 (0.8) a

14.5 (1.1) a

12

18.1 (0.4) a

17.2 (0.3) a

16.0 (0.5) a

15.4 (0.6) a

24

23.3 (0.2) a

22.9 (0.4) a

20.3 (1.0) a

21.2 (0.3) d

36

24.1 (0.9) a

24.3 (0.7) d

23.8 (1.1) d

29.6 (0.6) a

  1. The mean values in each series are from six measurements (n = 6)
  2. The numbers in the parentheses are the standard deviations
  3. Using Duncan’s test, the results within samples treated with the teak and bangkirai oils were evaluated in relation to the reference samples treated with transparent oil (99.9 % significance level (a); 99 % significance level (b); 95 % significance level (c); and no statistical significance at p ≥ 0.05 (d)
  4. The aim of the Duncan’s tests was to analyse the colour stabilisation effect of pigments in vegetable oils, and therefore this table does not show the results for the tropical woods in their native state—they can be seen in Fig. 1