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Often we find wet or damp wood around us, where sometimes the wood around us is brittle and damaged due to excess air loading. You realize that the moisture content in wood is of different types. Maybe people usually think that the moisture content in wood is only exposed to air or moist and wet air reservoirs. The water content in wood has two forms, namely:
The state of the air contained in the wood consists of two kinds, namely:
A. Free Water Level
This water content has cavities in the cell. usually the free water content is the easiest and the fastest to come out. Usually the free moisture content releases water in various areas of the wood. But rarely changes in the nature and shape of the wood itself. The thing that affects the wood in this free moisture content is the change in the weight of the wood, where the wood will be heavier because the water content usually flows in all directions quickly.
B. Bound Water Content
Bound Water Content has walls in wood cells, this is of course difficult to visit and usually cell walls affect the properties of wood. usually when the wood has come out to the entire surface of the wood and there is still something left behind, usually the free air can be said to be the saturation point in the fiber (fibersaturated point). Did you know that the level of saturation in fiber varies greatly depending on the chemical composition of the wood contained.
We can measure the air content in a piece of wood with a hydrometer, usually with a maximum air content limit of 60%.
Usually to measure a piece of furniture when it is in production to be sold, also measure it with this tool for checking. Checks are carried out when the production of smoked furniture is ready to be shipped.