https://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other
woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in
tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined
as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees,[1] or it is defined more broadly to include the
same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs.

Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools
and weapons, furniture and paper. More recently it emerged as a feedstock for the production of
purified cellulose and its derivatives, such as cellophane and cellulose acetate.

Heartwood and sapwood

Heartwood is wood that as a result of a naturally occurring chemical transformation has
become more resistant to decay. Heartwood formation is a genetically programmed process
that occurs spontaneously. Some uncertainty exists as to whether the wood dies during
heartwood formation, as it can still chemically react to decay organisms, but only once.

Thin sapwood is characteristic of such species as chestnut, black locust, mulberry, osage-
orange, and sassafras, while in maple, ash, hickory, hackberry, beech, and pine, thick
sapwood is the rule.

Sapwood is the younger, outermost wood; in the growing tree it is living wood,[14] and its
principal functions are to conduct water from the roots to the leaves and to store up and
give back according to the season the reserves prepared in the leaves. However, by the time
they become competent to conduct water, all xylem tracheids and vessels have lost their
cytoplasm and the cells are therefore functionally dead. All wood in a tree is first formed as
sapwood.

Wood density
Wood density is determined by multiple growth and physiological factors compounded into
one fairly easily measured wood characteristic. Age, diameter, height, radial (trunk) growth,
geographical location, site and growing conditions, silvicultural treatment, and seed source
all to some degree influence wood density. Variation is to be expected. Within an individual
tree, the variation in wood density is often as great as or even greater than that between
different trees. Variation of specific gravity within the bole of a tree can occur in either the
horizontal or vertical direction.

chemistry
The chemical composition of wood varies from species to species, but is approximately 50%
carbon, 42% oxygen, 6% hydrogen, 1% nitrogen, and 1% other elements (mainly calcium,
potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, and manganese) by weight.[25] Wood also contains
sulfur, chlorine, silicon, phosphorus, and other elements in small quantity.
Aside from water, wood has three main components. Cellulose, a crystalline polymer
derived from glucose, constitutes about 41–43%. Next in abundance is hemicellulose, which
 is around 20% in deciduous trees but near 30% in conifers. “It is mainly five-carbon sugars
that are linked in an irregular manner, in contrast to the cellulose”. Lignin is the third
component at around 27% in coniferous wood vs. 23% in deciduous trees. Lignin confers the
hydrophobic properties reflecting the fact that it is based on aromatic rings. These three
components are interwoven, and direct covalent linkages exist between the lignin and the
hemicellulose. A major focus of the paper industry is the separation of the lignin from the
cellulose, from which paper is made.

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product chosen- Metal tree on a wooden wall

idea behind this- global warming deforestation due to industrialisation.
Due to industrialisation in this modern world trees are rapidly cut down for more
land to built industries, houses or agricultural purposes, for wooden logs in
construction of buildings. throughout history and into modern times, forests have
been razed to make space for different uses as mentioned above. So the product
chosen depicts a dead tree which is made of metal on a wooden wall.
Materials taken- 22 gauge magnet wire circumference of a circle is 30 inches. Cable
tie. Vice, piler, sand paper, wood log, iron nails drill