It is called wood To that most solid and fibrous part of the trees and that is located under its bark.
It should be noted that wood is characterized by the diverse elasticity that it has, which will be closely related to the direction of deformation that it presentsand also its conditions will vary depending on the type of tree it comes from and the climatic characteristics of the place where the tree from which it will be extracted grows.
Regarding its composition, it is composed of the following elements: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogenamong others.
Although wood is a highly resistant material to biological damage, however, there are some organisms that use wood for various purposes and this ends up altering it. Among these organizations are the bacteria, fungi and insects.
Once the wood is dried and cut, it can be applied in various areas and given different purposes, among which are: the manufacture of a paste that allows it to consist of the raw material that allows us to produce paper; to make a fire grow, popularly called as firewood; in construction and carpentry to manufacture various objects and furniture, as we will see later; in medicine; and at the request of the means of transport to just build them, such is the case of carriages and ships.
On the other hand, we also call wood the part, mentioned above, of the trees and that is used at the behest of carpentry to make furniture, floorsamong others.
Wood also has a symbolic use in colloquial language to designate that natural and spontaneous inclination that an individual presents to carry out a certain activity or profession. He’s got acting stuff..
And there is a hyper-popular expression that contains the word wood and that we use a lot in everyday language: touch wood, which consists of precisely at the same time that it is pronounced touching some element or piece of wood in order to avoid any curse or damage that could happen to us. Meanwhile, with that action it would be neutralized, of course, in superstitious terms.
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