Sentences with phrase «much used wood»

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Stenebo claims that the Chinese wood used in so much of Ikea's furniture comes from suspect places, that executives all hail from the same city in Sweden, and that some are racist and sexist.

How did he build a 440» ark out of wood when all attempts to built steel - reinfoirced wooden vessels over 300 - 350 feet failed (wood is not strong enough, no matter how much you use).

Joseph is said to have been a carpenter, although since much wood was used in building, he was probably a builder as well.

The setting in the hills allows the abbey to live in harmony with its natural surroundings through the use of concrete, wood and metal, which contribute to a color palette that is very much at home in this setting amid rocks and trees.

There's not much data on the woods used.

I am not sure how much longer currants will be available in my neck of the woods, but I am hoping to grab just a few more for an upcoming recipe so stay tuned for more ideas on how to use currants.

The sticks are manufactured from what the Russians call buk wood, which comes from the Caucasus, and are much lighter than those used by other nations.

I would love to see Ish get more snaps; he's bigger, has a better nose for the football, lays the wood when he finds it, and he used to play safety so I'm sure he wouldn't be that much of a liability in coverage, something Riley has demonstrated he can be..

If it's a large bird, I use a draw blade to remove as much wood as quickly as possible.

I needed something much smaller and wanted to incorporate natural wood, so I used wooden embroidery hoops to make mine.

Much like a guitar's backing, a variety of wood and composite materials are used for the neck.

In Liming, local communities used to harvest wood on a rotational basis, assigning mature trees by lottery and strictly policing how much could be cut, even as other cultural practices — such as cooking the fodder for pigs — added more pressure.

LIMING, CHINA — Fourteen - year - old Feng Yu's parents used to have to carry as much as 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of wood daily to fuel the cooking stove in their kitchen.

At this stage, scientists are still using too much tinder and not burning enough of the wood to make a campfire worthwhile.

Because the supply is so unreliable, few invest in appliances for heating or cooking, using wood - fired stoves instead, which harm the environment much more than the generation and transmission of electricity would.

So the researchers, including materials scientist Lars Berglund of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, used enzymes and a blender to chew standard wood pulp into a stew of much finer particles — about one - thousandth their original size.

Mills that use mostly wood fibre release between three and a hundred times as much of these chemicals as mills that recycle paper, says Press, who recently reported his findings at a meeting of the American Political Science Association in New York.

In a just published report2, the authors explain how much potential there is to gain energy from used wood and how the utilisation of this raw material could develop in the future.

For example, people in the surrounding countries use much wood, grass and agricultural wastes to cook with, which the team categorized as biofuel.

I avoid plastic as much as possible and we use glass, stainless, or wood in its place, so I went in search of some DIY ideas.

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

I do buy my cleaners more than I used to, but old habits die hard and since I have the ingredients on hand already (and it's so much cheaper than buying it) I still make this wood dusting spray recipe on a regular basis.

This hallway used to house my made over HomeGoods bench with no sew cushion, but I really think this beat up reclaimed wood bench is much better suited here.

We were able to make this adorable DIY Blanket Ladder using that leftover wood for free ~ and we were able to make our garage a safer place for little ones and a momma much happier.

Peaches are pretty much over in our neck of the woods so maybe I'll try this using apples.

Continuous series of tree - ring dated wood samples have been obtained for roughly the past 10,000 years which give the approximate correct radiocarbon age, demonstrating the general validity of the conventional radiocarbon dating technique.Several long tree - ring chronologies have been constructed specifically for use in calibrating the radiocarbon time scale.Some may have mistaken this to mean that the sample had been dated to 20,000 radiocarbon years.The second characteristic of the measurement of radiocarbon is that it is easy to contaminate a sample which contains very little radiocarbon with enough radiocarbon from the research environment to give it an apparent radiocarbon age which is much less than its actual radiocarbon age.

Taking over for Patrick Swayze, Thor's Chris Hemsworth plays the leader of a band of rebels, a shit - kicking Iraq War veteran who knows how to survive in the woods and use guerrilla tactics against a much larger force.

as someone who in my much younger days when i used to get about a bit was in the habit of taking a selection of golfs, a polo, a rover 216, a metro and even a simca 1000 down the loch - and lakeside tracks which carried on into the woods where the roads ended what i am convinced of is that ground clearance becomes an issue long before traction ever does.

In much the same spirit, the ebony used for some models is reclaimed from furniture makers and others sources to offer a beautiful and rare wood with minimal environmental impact.

But the result is that alpha - cellulose from wood, besides being much cheaper, is now preferred for some uses, and unless something can be done to improve the cellulose available from cotton linters, so that it holds its place in quality while at the same time becoming less costly, that source is likely to suffer materially through de.

Thank you so much, I have a new kitten that I will be switching to wood pellets later on in life, but for now she uses normal litter for kittens.

To help achieve this, Moana embraced a natural approach for the building materials, using as much glass, natural woods and stone as was possible.

boat made out of wood, then you don't really get much use out of it aside from it serving as a nice handmade display item.

Sure you can make a model plane or boat, but unless it's a major craft project like say an actual boat made out of wood, then you don't really get much use out of it aside from it serving as a nice handmade display item.

There is so much potential to use the greatly sized world to create a place that is full of life, placing builders in the world carrying wood across the field or off building houses in the field.

Creating sustainable art, including frames and mouldings from used wood and downed trees, is the manifestation of the company's mission to divert as much wood as possible from landfills, says Hickman.

Aluminum cuts much better using high - speed steel blades, while wood will cut better using carbide tipped blades.

MacLean works in a method that depends as much on the human hand as on meticulous mathematical calculations to achieve a trompe l'oeil effect — which is further enhanced by his use of dried pigments to mask the materiality of the wood.

Employing traditional techniques on very smooth wood and canvas surfaces, Gundersen uses oils to reveal a depth of color and movement, much like harmonic overtones in music.

Instead of creating slick installations, Sibony uses basic materials — drywall, wood, screws, paint, canvas, etc. — that are openly revealed, thereby becoming autonomous and elevated in their import much like Rauschenberg's works.

The restoration project At a large extent, the renovation / restoration project was focused on preserving the original idea of Breuer by designing absolutely coherent new ticketing desk and kiosks, keeping the newly - designed elements as much uncluttered as possible, adopting the same materials used by Breuer (limestone, bluestone, bare concrete, bronze, and oak wood) and removing all the incoherent elements added after 1966.

Putting aside our significant concern that the interior seems to look so much like some other newish museums that they could all be using the same slide show — bleached wood, elongated staircases, giant white movable walls, skylights — there's some tremendous things in store.

The reason I wanted to engage in that was because in my conversations with people I would understand that there's so much misunderstanding about how we manage our timber and use the wood resource.

As the third story in our series will discuss, there are certainly times when wood energy can be beneficial — but those scenarios tend to play out at much more local scales, in which true waste wood is used for heat and power.

There are a lot of benefits to building with wood; Metsä notes that because it weighs so much less, they can build with less disruption, using a fifth the number of trucks running through Manhattan.

If we are going to build sustainably, we have to use more wood and less concrete, especially in Canada where we have so much if it under threat from beetle infestations.

But the reverse may be true: wind energy and the use of wood as fuel are in fact much older, and were largely abandoned by today's politician's wiser predecessors.

If every country recycled as much of its paper as South Korea does, the amount of wood pulp used to produce paper worldwide would drop by one third.

They may both use wood and sound similar but the application is much different.

There isn't much information of how the materials used in this system are sourced (i.e. if the wood is sustainably sourced, and if the steel used is recycled).