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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 10 Relation between wood color (L*, a*, b*) and precipitated smoke weight (y)

From: Color change and termite resistance of fast-growing tropical woods treated with kesambi (Schleichera oleosa) smoke

No.

Wood species

Regression

R2

1.

Sengon

y = 79.952 − 1.069L* (**) − 0.870a* + 0.427b*

0.898

2.

Jabon

y = 99.779 − 0.633L* (**) + 1.714a* − 2.271b* (**)

0.970

3.

Mangium

y = 137.787 − 2.642L* (**) + 0.686a* + 0.747b*

0.899

4.

Pine

y = 180.924 − 2.357L* (*) + 1.413a* − 0.440b*

0.743

5.

All species

y = 111.537 − 1.520L* (**) + 2.152a* − 0.502b*

0.573

  1. y = weight of precipitated smoke; L*, a*, and b* are representing color; (**) highly significant (p ≤ 0.01); R2 = determination coefficient