I am new to this most interesting list and hope listmembers will not
mind my slightly off-subject question with regard to the current thread
which I have been following with great interest.
I am interested specifically in the temperature at which the wood fused
and became charcoal as wood is often placed in with pottery for firing.
My own field is prehistoric saltmaking, where the ceramic vessels were
low fired and brittle, the firing temperature thought to be about 700
degrees F. We know that a great deal of 'copse wood' was utilized for
boiling, we don't generally know what kind of wood.
However, there is llth century evidence of loads of wood provided
On 9/2/04 12:27 AM Nic Dolby writes:
>The thickwalled Eucalyptus diversicolor has fusing while the thin
>walled E. marginata does not. I think this sounds right for the
>eucalypts, that fusing occurs more readily in taxa with thickwalled
>fibres, but it doesn't explain the varying degree of fusing that occurs.
>I always assumed that it was wet or green wood, perhaps higher
>temperature fires, following Prior.
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