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General Index 



Insects that attack logs, pulp wood and green 



lumber (continued) 



banded ash borer, 878 



false powder post beetle, 880 



protection against, 880 



red headed ash borer, 878 

 Insects that attack seeds 



gall wasps, 856 



hickory nut weevil, 857 



weevils, 856 

 Insects that attack trunks, 860 



ash borer, 870 



carpenter worm, 872 



clearwing borer, 870 



Columbian timber beetle, 862 



control of, 874 



hickory borer, 866 



identification of, 872 



living beech borer, 866 



oak timberworm, 862 



red oak borer, 866 



white oak borer, 866 

 Insects that attack twigs, branches, and 

 terminals, 857 



cynipid gall wasps, 857 



oak branch borer, 857 



periodical cicada, 858 



tulip tree scale, 858 



two-lined chestnut borer, 858 

 Insulation board; see Fiberboard product 



classes 

 Interlocked grain, 240 

 International 1/4-inch log scale, 3258 

 Iron tannate stains, 670 

 Jet cutting, 2133 

 Jointing 



board surfaces, 1989, 1993 



knives in a cutterhead, 2004, 2007 



glue-joint ripsaws, 1885 

 Joist manufacture, 3541, 3564, 3569 

 Kerf, definition , 1 844- 1 846 

 Kerfless cutting; see also Laser cutting, 1808 

 Key to hardwoods 



botanical, 126 



wood, macroscopic, 351 



wood, microscopic, 352 

 Kiln drying, 2382, 2408; see also Drying 

 Kitchen cabinets, 2593, 3619 

 Knots 



structure in trees, 912 

 Kraft pulp 



chips for, 2195, 2208 



price trend, 3638 



process description, 3133 



requirements for a ton of pulp, 3135 

 Labor supply for harvesting, 1500 



Laminated wood, 2568, 2597, 2624, 2674, 

 2697, 3530 



energy, manpower, and capital 



requirements, 2558, 2560, 2562, 3530 



factors affecting lumber lamination, 2698 

 Laminates, high-pressure decorative 



equilibrium moisture content, 585 



thermal expansion, 701 

 Landscape ties, 2676 

 Laser cutting, 2137 

 Latewood 



definition of, 210 



distribution of chemical compounds in, 

 378, 379 

 Lignin, 385 



carbohydrate bonding, 397 



definition of, 366, 385 



distribution in cell walls, 378, 3107 



distribution within annual increment, 379 



content by species, 368, 369, 386, 387 



formation of, 388 



functional groups in, 396 



heat of combustion, 702 



methoxyl content of, 391 



properties and utilization of, 398 



schematic formula of, 390, 395 



specific heat, 689 



structures in, 393 



yield in hydrolysis process, 3573 

 Lignin content, effect on 



dielectric constant, 691 



resistivity, 684 

 Linear expansion of 



fiberboards, 2851 



flakeboards, 2990 



veneered panels, 2658, 3031 

 Liquefaction, 3220 

 Liquidambar styraciflua L., 108; see Tupelo, 



black 

 Liquid-jet cutting, 2133 

 Liriodendron tulipifera L., 1 15; see Yellow- 

 poplar 

 Litter 



annual leaf and needle fall, 39, 

 1363-1366, 1370 



biomass, 38, 1360 



decomposition rate, 1369 



definition of, 38, 1367 



depth of, and weight/acre, 38, 1367-1370 



moisture content of, 38, 1384 



seasonal variation, 1370 

 Live sawing 



definition, 1843 



discussion of, 1933, 1969 

 Local-use-class logs, 975 



