Sort of wood: Beech

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Block parquet: Beech
Pic. 1: Block parquet: Beech (32 kB)
Beech (fagus — latin name). This sort of wood has no kernel, ripe wood. The color of wood is yellowish, reddish-white, has a noble kind. Annual layers are clearly seen, heart-shaped rays are visible on all cuts.

Wood is durable and hard with beautiful homogeneous texture, it is well bent, but it is exposed to rotting.

This sort of wood is hygroscopic — withers and warps much, quickly reacts upon the change of environment (humidity and temperature).

It is well processed. At thermal treatment (drying with the mode of steaming) it changes a color to red tones. Popularity of ash stands after oak. (Oak, naturally, on the 1 place).