The chemical aspect of the drying of timber

Abstract

INTRODUCTION. IT is common knowledge that timber does not in general find its way into commercial usage until it has attained a moisture content approaching that which will be in equilibrium with the moisture of the ,atmosphere in which it will be used after conversion. In view of the high moisture content of freshly felled timber, the progress of drying under natural conditions must necessarily take considerable time, but despite this fact, and the economic issues which it involves, the question often arises as to whether air-drying of timber is to