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Wood and Wood Products

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Wood has been utilized by humans since antiquity. Trees provided a source of many products required by early humans such as food, medicine, fuel, and tools. For example, the bark of the willow tree, when chewed, was used as a painkiller in early Greece and was the precursor of the present-day aspirin. Wood served as the primary fuel in the United States until about the turn of the century, and even today over one-half of the wood now harvested in the world is used for heating fuel.

The author wishes to acknowledge the use of material from an ealier edition prepared by Dr. E. C. Jahn and Dr. R. W. Strauss.

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Young, R.A. (1992). Wood and Wood Products. In: Kent, J.A. (eds) Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7691-0_7

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