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The reduction in hygroscopicity as spruce wood is impregnated with linseed oil may be accounted for using a molecular exclusion model. On the basis of the model, each linseed oil molecule appears to displace 90 water molecules and occupy 6 hydrogen bonding sites in the wood.
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Dr. Allen R. Sharp, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New Brunswick and Dr. Christen Skaar, Professor of Wood Physics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University freely gave essential advice and encouragement during this work. Graphical depiction of the molecular displacement model (Fig. 1) was suggested by Dr. Skaar. Much of the experimental work was carried out by Mr. Wu-Rong Perng, Scientific Technician in Wood Science and Mrs. Monica Snow, Instructor in Wood Science at the University of New Brunswick
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Schneider, M.H. Hygroscopicity of wood impregnated with linseed oil. Wood Sci.Technol. 14, 107–114 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584040
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584040