What is the difference between hard wood and soft wood?
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Hardwood and softwood are broad biological terms used to describe species of wood, in which, hardwoods come from broad-leaved trees and softwood species from coniferous, evergreen trees. The important factor for wood used out of doors is that it is durable enough to resist fungal decay. This means using a hardwood classified as naturally durable (some are not) or softwood given extended durability through pressure treatment. Another difference is that hardwood trees are angiosperms, plants that produce seeds with some sort of covering while softwoods are gymnosperms, plants let seeds fall to the ground as is, with no covering.
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Hardwoods are deciduous broad-leaved trees which lose their leaves annually while softwood species are coniferous and evergreen trees. Hardwoods tend to be slower in growing and are therefore usually denser. Softwood usually grows in huge tracts of trees which may spread for miles while hardwoods tend to be found mixed with a variety of other species.
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How hard they are. And if they are from Canada or the USA.
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Soft wood had a loose well separated grain. These are usually timbers that come from pine and are soft and light in weight. Hardwood has a close fine grain and is usually hard and
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Hard wood is wood that is hard to cut, or burns hotter and longer such as oak or maple, soft wood cuts easly and burns fast with little heat such as a pine tree
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