1. DECAY AND TERMITE RESISTANCE OF PARTICLEBOARD MANUFACTURED FROM WOOD, BAMBOO AND RICE HUSK.
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de Melo, Rafael Rodolfo, Martins Stangerlin, Diego, Campomanes Santana, Ricardo Robinson, and Dantas Pedrosa, Talita
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TERMITES , *PARTICLE board , *EUCALYPTUS grandis , *BAMBUSA , *RICE hulls , *WOOD-decaying fungi - Abstract
The resistance of particleboards, made from wood, bamboo and rice husk, to fungi and termites was evaluated. Panels were composed of 100% wood (Eucalyptus grandis), 100% bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris), 100% rice husk (Oryza sativa), 50% wood and 50% bamboo; and 50% wood and 50% rice husk. Panels exposed to the decay the brown-rot fungus (Gloeophyllum trabeum, and the white-rot fungus (Trametes versicolor), and, in a choice feeding trial, to termites (Nasutitermes corniger). The rice husk particleboards had the highest resistance of all samples and the bamboo particleboards had the lowest resistance. T. versicolor fungi produced a larger mass loss in the particleboards than did G. trabeum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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