Variability of particleboard properties from single- and mixed-species processes

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 68-74

  Xu, Wei ^a   Suchsland, Otto ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032163163     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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