Heartwood vs Hardwood - What's the difference?
heartwood | hardwood |
The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood
The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
(label) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
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The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
(label) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
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As nouns the difference between heartwood and hardwood
is that heartwood is the wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood while hardwood is the wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.heartwood
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(wikipedia heartwood)Noun
- A popular myth is that heartwood is stronger than sapwood