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Record 1 1989-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
DEF

The quality of being easily cleft.

CONT

The property of wood owing to which it may be split ... is termed fissibility, and depends chiefly on the direction in which the force acts.

CONT

They (bamboo canes) are often made use of for frames of houses, for which their ready fissibility, and their lightness, peculiarly adapt them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
DEF

Propriété que présente une matière (...) de se fendre en feuilles de faible épaisseur.

OBS

La source LAROG précise que "fissibilité" se rapporte notamment aux minéraux et aux roches et ne donne malheureusement pas d'exemple pour le bois.

Spanish

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