Talk:Wood grain

What is the distinction?
Growth rings versus Wood grain: what is the distinction between the two? --VanBurenen (talk) 20:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * They are really growth cylinders. If you cut them across, you get circles, if you cut them lengthwise, you get lines. If you cut them at an angle, you can even get "growth ellipses". StuRat (talk) 00:13, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

See Reference desk/Science for additional discussion. --hydnjo talk 16:43, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Additions for the lonely single reference
From Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama:

"Figure in wood : an illustrated review" - http://aurora.auburn.edu/repo/handle/11200/2414 This item may help, too: "Annotated bibliography of figure in wood" - http://aurora.auburn.edu/repo/handle/11200/1998

All the best, Wordreader (talk) 02:30, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

"Grain"
The usage of is under discussion, see talk:food grain -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 05:47, 17 September 2015 (UTC)