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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 Water resistance properties of sodium fluoride (NaF) incorporated particleboards (mean of 5 specimens—values in parentheses are standard deviations)

From: Potential utilization of sodium fluoride (NaF) as a biocide in particleboard production

NaF (%)

Water absorption (%)

Thickness swelling (%)

2 h

24 h

2 h

24 h

0.00

10.02 (2.01) a

27.78 (5.60) a

4.26 (0.47) a

9.28 (0.94) a

1.00

15.92 (3.32) a

49.64 (8.84) b

5.84 (0.97) a

12.46 (1.15) b

1.50

14.48 (2.70) a

41.14 (8.83) b

5.44 (1.01) a

12.44 (2.23) b

3.00

15.94 (5.82) a

41.38 (11.94) b

5.28 (1.02) a

11.68 (2.29) b

p values

0.075

0.013

0.076

0.036

  1. Mean within each column followed by different letters are significantly different (p ≤ 0.05)