Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2013
It is called wood To that the most solid and fibrous part of the trees and which is located under their bark.
It should be noted that wood is characterized by diverse elasticity available, which will be closely related to the direction of deformation that presents, and also its conditions will vary depending on the type of tree that it comes from and the climatic characteristics of the place in which the tree from which it will be extracted grows.
Regarding its composition, it is composed of the following elements: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, among others.
Although wood is a highly resistant material to biological damage, however, there are some organisms that make use of wood for various purposes and this ends up altering it. Among these organizations, thebacteria, fungi and insects.
Once the wood dries and is cut, it can be applied in various fields and given different purposes, among which are: the manufacture of a paste that allows it to consist of the
raw material that allows us to produce the paper; to grow a fire, popularly called as firewood; on building and carpentry to make various objects and furniture, as we will see later; in medicine; and at the request of the media transport just to build them, such is the case of carriages and ships.On the other hand, we also refer to wood as part, mentioned above, of the trees and that is used at the behest of the carpentry to make furniture, floors, among others.
Also wood has a use symbolic in language colloquial to designate that natural and spontaneous inclination that an individual presents to carry out a certain activity or profession. Has wood for acting.
And there is a expression hyper popular that contains the word wood and that we use it a lot in common language: touch wood, which consists of precisely at the same time that it is pronounced to touch an element or piece of wood in order to avoid any curse or damage that could happen to us. Meanwhile, this action would neutralize it, of course, in superstitious terms.
Wood Themes