what type of wood do toothpicks come from?
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The Ash tree..\n\nAlso, in Ireland we play a game called hurling, and the hurley (which is the stick you hit the ball with) is made from the Ash tree!  We learned this when we were younger and we were like "Oh my God, the hurleys made from toothpicks"\n\nHope this helps.
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All over the world. There are several species of Mahogany. There is tropical american mahogony that grows in central and south america. African mahongany that grows - well - in Africa. Asian mahogany that grows in china, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. Phillipine mahogany that grows in the islands of the Pacific. And so on. The woods have differences in characteristics. Some are used for furniture, some for specialty grade plywood. Some for veneers, and the best of the best for musical instruments. Interestingly, there is no north american or european mahogony.
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Rocky is right.\n"Ivory" is just another name for dentine, which all mammalian teeth have. The interest in elephants and the rest of the animals mentioned is because they have dentine but lack enamel (the extremely hard outer layer of most teeth), therefore the entire tooth is available (except for the pulp cavity, of course). \nOther animals that have no enamel are for instance armadillos, aardvarks, and dugongs. Rodent incisors have enamel on the front surface only.
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if the toothpicks are of the same length, you'l need a side of 3 t'picks, anther of 4 and the last one of 5.\n\nyou can prove it using the pitagorean theorem\na^2 + b^2 = c^2\n3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2\n9 + 16 = 25\n25 = 25
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The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica (other names Galenia asiatica, Salvadora indica), is a small tree or shrub with a crooked trunk, seldom more than one foot in diameter, bark scabrous and cracked, whitish with pendulous extremities. Its fibrous branches have been used as toothbrushes by many Islamic communities — miswaks.
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Back in the day, hockey sticks were made from Rock Elm.  This wood was preferred because it was so strong yet light.  Since the Dutch Elm disease outbreak in the early 90's wiped out most of the supply, manufactures changed to White Ash (same thing most baseball bats are made of).  It's not as strong, but it's about 1/5 of the cost.\n\nIt's pretty rare to find a wood stick nowadays - sometimes wood blades, but not a wood stick.  They make the sticks in a very similar way to baseball bats.  The manufactures find a very straight grain in a piece of wood, cut to the desired length, and cut out a notch (hole) for the blade.  A wood, wood/fiberglass, or carbon composite blade is then inserted in the notch.  It's pretty rare to find a one-piece wood.  These were extremely expensive to make, and if you snapped your blade,  the whole stick had to be junked.  Two-piece designs allow you to snap the blades all you want and still re-use the same stick over and over.\n\nHowever there isn't much to a one-piece wood stick.  The manufactures took a larger diameter tree and cut with the grain and across the widest part of the tree for the blade.  This process would yield about 2 one-piece sticks for every 6' of wood.  Not too efficient.
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paper companys generally buy wood chips from saw mills.the chips come from slabwood and other parts of the trees which can't be used for lumber.then they process the chips for paper.
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Hey, I wonder what class your doing this for, but there are a few ways I can think of from the top of my head.  \n\n- Conjoin paper clips\n- Roll and Fold paper to create bones\n- And/or Use toothpicks\n\nYou can even use all three in the same project. \n\nCheers.
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As per the CTI(Cooling Tower Institute) www.cti.org, - douglas fir is the main softwood used in part due to its strength. Some towers are made out of redwood and that is because of redwood's treatability(now most redwood is sapwood) and appearance.
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Carved from red cedar trees. Red cedar is the best choice because it is a soft wood with a straight grain and it grows large enough in diameter.\n\nAlthough it depends upon what part of the country your in.  There are totem poles utilized by different tribes around the world including small tropical islands.
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Popular legend describes George Washington's dentures as "wooden" but, in fact, the three extant sets were made of many materials, including hippopotamus ivory, cow's teeth and metal, with some wood used to hold the teeth in place. Although Washington's ability to keep morale high in the face of adversity is widely known, the role of his dentures to accomplish this is less so. One of the general's favourite tricks during meetings was to stick his forefinger in his mouth, as if he were picking his teeth. But, when his finger came out, his choppers would be clamped to his finger. He would act as if nothing unusual had occurred, as those speaking to him continued as best as they could while goggling at the teeth. This was reportedly used most effectively in a particularly difficult negotiation during the constitutional convention in 1787.
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Paper pulp, which comes from certain trees.
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Wood fibers in the paper the tissue is made from.
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Used to be lead, wood, metal and rubber.  Now they use graphite instead of lead.
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There are so many types of ficus trees. I know that the Ficus racemosa (from china) can not.\nIis the only species that loggers do not cut as the wood has neither value as construction nor fire wood, and besides, it destroys the chain saws.\nMost ficus wood is too pliable and of little value in home constuction. It is used for hoops, garlands, ornaments etc. but not much else.
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Here they are...weaker first.\n\nbalsa, fir, pine, douglas fir, oak, hickory\n\nThe strongest of available woods for airplanes is hickory, as it was used on the wingtips.\n\nSitka spruce was used everywhere else ,not because it was weak, but strong for it's weight.\n\nThe "Spruce Goose" was made from douglas fir and douglas fir plywood.
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Don't forget to spell check it.\n\nArkansas is blessed with an abundance of natural resources. Timber, gas and oil, rivers, the Ozarks, even diamonds. It has led to some high-stakes, damaging expolitation at times.\n\nI think the Toothpick State comes from the fact that everyone sits on their front porch on an old sofa with a toothpick in their mouth. \nProbably goes back to the timber resource.