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Ochroma pyramidale,
commonly known as the
balsa tree, is a large, fast-growing tree
native to the Americas. It is the sole
member of the
genus Ochroma...
- The
building of balsa-wood
bridges is
often used as an
educational technology. It may be
accompanied by a
larger project involving varying areas of study...
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built and
sailed two
balsawood rafts from Peru to
Easter Island in 2015. The goal of the
expedition was to show that
balsawood rafts can be
sailed across...
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claim to have made a "wooden transistor" by
replacing the
lignin from
balsawood with PEDOT:PSS
Since PEDOT:PSS is most
frequently used in thin film architectures...
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making the journey,
Heyerdahl puts his
theory to the test and
builds a
balsawood raft
using the same
techniques that
would have been
utilized 1,500 years...
- 1940 The de
Havilland Mosquito was
built with
sandwich composites; a
balsawood core with
plywood skins.
Metal composite material (MCM) is a type of sandwich...
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vehicle was 3.1 m high and
consisted of a
lunar capsule covered with a
balsawood impact-limiter, 65 cm in diameter, a mono-propellant mid-course motor...
- (730 lb), 3.1 m (10 ft) high and
consisted of a
lunar capsule covered with a
balsawood impact-limiter, 0.65 m (26 in) in diameter, a mono-propellant mid-course...
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Mosquito fighter-bomber was
built from wood—plywood
facings bonded to a
balsawood core and
formed using molds to
produce monocoque structures,
leading to...
- sports.
During a
summer vacation in 1950
Alter began by
building 9-foot
balsawood surfboards for his friends. He
asked his dad to pull the
DeSoto out of...
