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NEURODESIGN® · MATERIAL CLASS · WOOD AND PLANT STRUCTURE

Solid softwood

Sawn coniferous timber. Lower density and hardness than hardwood, more pronounced grain contrast, higher volatile terpene emission when unfinished.

Decisive attributes

The attributes that most determine how this class behaves and how it is experienced. No values are shown, because a value belongs to a product and not to a class. Two products of the same material can differ from each other by more than the material differs from its neighbours.

Typical application

Panelling. Ceilings. Joinery.

Worth watching

Unfinished softwood emits terpenes at rates that can fail a low-emission threshold while being the very compounds some wood research treats as relevant. The certification and the hypothesis point in opposite directions here.

Evidence

3 records in the research corpus reach this class. Each carries its own evidence strength and translation distance, shown below. Read both: a finding can be strong and still be several inferential steps from a specification.

These records study wood as a class. None of them distinguishes hardwood from softwood, or solid timber from a veneer over an adhesive core, and most do not state what finish was on the material tested. The evidence is located one level above this entry, and it is shown here on that understanding.

Outcomes it could bear on

Outcomes whose material levers overlap this class. This is a structural relationship in the ontology, not a finding: it says the property is relevant to the outcome, not that this material produces it.

Wood and plant structure