Relationship of selected cell characteristics and colour of silver birch wood after two different drying processes

Wood Material Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-28

  Luostarinen, Katri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Birch; Colour change

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049159201     PISSN: 17480272     EISSN: 17480280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17480270600664850     Document Type: Article

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