Acid activity of wood

Jerry Shiner <keepsafe [at] interlog__com> writes

>Could someone tell me the acid volatilities of various common woods,
>or of where to find this information?

A table on the Materials Preservation web site provides data on the
corrosiveness of seven woods towards various metals. See
<URL:http://www.best.com/~drrust/Correff.htm> This metal attack will
be mainly due to acidic volatiles so the effects on cellulosic
materials should be in the same order, which is

    oak=beech > chestnut > birch > fir > walnut=elm.

The latter two woods produced no metal corrosion under the
conditions tested.

Patrick Gallagher
Materials Preservation
Sunnyvale, California
Fax: 508-464-1057

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