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Article: Balsa -- Lightweight Wood Has Variety of Uses.(Brief Article)
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- Wood & Wood Products
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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BRING UP THE TOPIC of balsa wood and you are likely to inspire some snickers.
Balsa is considered a lightweight among woods. While it is the lightest of the commercial hardwoods and unlikely to make anyone's top-10 list of fine cabinet woods, balsa has a long, proud history -- it was used in construction of the Allies' planes in World War II -- and is one of the most frequently imported woods to the United States. In World War I, balsa was used extensively in making life rafts and for packing armor plates for battleships. Because of its light weight and good insulating properties, it is still used as a packing material for highly finished materials.
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... ... Technical Report (the "Report") on its La Balsa copper project in Michoacan, Mexico ... 194.6 million pounds of copper at La Balsa with an additional inferred resource and ... download the complete NI 43-101 on the La Balsa copper project go to: http://www ...
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