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Firewood

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Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel. [1]

38 relations: Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, Australia, Biomass, Birch, British thermal unit, Bushfires in Australia, Canada, Chainsaw, Charcoal, Cord (unit), Cordwood construction, Estovers, Face cord, Forest, Fuel, Hardwood, Heat of combustion, Larix laricina, Metric system, Multipurpose tree, Norway, NRK2, Pellet fuel, Power take-off, Renewable resource, Softwood, Splitting maul, Stere, Sweden, The New York Times, Tonne, United States, Wood, Wood ash, Wood drying, Wood fuel, Woodlot.

Abies concolor

Abies concolor, the white fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae.

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Abies magnifica

Abies magnifica, the red fir or silvertip fir, is a western North American fir, native to the mountains of southwest Oregon and California in the United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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British thermal unit

The British thermal unit (Btu or BTU) is a traditional unit of heat; it is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.

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Bushfires in Australia

Bushfires are frequent events during the warmer months of the year, due to Australia's mostly hot, dry climate.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chainsaw

A chainsaw is a portable, mechanical saw which cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain that runs along a guide bar.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.

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Cord (unit)

The cord is a unit of measure of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood in the United States and Canada.

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Cordwood construction

Cordwood construction (also called "cordwood masonry", "stackwall construction", "stovewood construction" or "stackwood construction") is a term used for a natural building method in which "cordwood" or short pieces of debarked tree are laid up crosswise with masonry or cob mixtures to build a wall.

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Estovers

In English law, an estover is an allowance made to a person out of an estate, or other thing, for his or her support.

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Face cord

A face cord is an informal unit of volume for stacked firewood, sometimes called a rick.

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Forest

A forest is a large area dominated by trees.

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Fuel

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as heat energy or to be used for work.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees.

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Heat of combustion

The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.

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Larix laricina

Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, Maryland; there is also an isolated population in central Alaska.

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Metric system

The metric system is an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement.

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Multipurpose tree

Multipurpose trees are trees that are deliberately grown and managed for more than one output.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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NRK2

NRK2 (NRK To) is one of the TV channels of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

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Pellet fuel

Pellet fuels (or pellets) are biofuels made from compressed organic matter or biomass.

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Power take-off

A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is any of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machines.

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Renewable resource

A renewable resource is a natural resource which replenishes to overcome resource depletion caused by usage and consumption, either through biological reproduction or other naturally recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale.

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Softwood

Scots Pine, a typical and well-known softwood Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers.

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Splitting maul

A splitting maul also known as a block buster, block splitter, sledge axe, go-devil or hamaxe is a heavy, long-handled axe used for splitting a piece of wood along its grain.

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Stere

The stere or stère is a unit of volume in the original metric system equal to one cubic metre.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Wood ash

Wood ash is the residue powder left after the combustion of wood, such as burning wood in a home fireplace or an industrial power plant.

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Wood drying

Wood drying (also seasoning lumber or wood seasoning) reduces the moisture content of wood before its use.

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Wood fuel

Wood fuel (or fuelwood) is a fuel, such as firewood, charcoal, chips, sheets, pellets, and sawdust.

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Woodlot

A woodlot is a parcel of a woodland or forest capable of small-scale production of forest products (such as wood fuel, sap for maple syrup, sawlogs, and pulpwood) as well as recreational uses like bird watching, bushwalking, and wildflower appreciation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewood

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