The wood density has a great practical meaning. The denser wood is heavier and harder and is more durable and harder to process. The denser wood is hard to be treated with wood preservatives, but it is more durable and wear-resistant when used for floors, stairs, railings.
If you substitute one wood species for another one the volume (and, accordingly, mass) of the adhesive in one cubic meter will change very little.
| Types of wood | Density (Kg / M^3) |
|---|---|
| Softwood: | Average to cut |
| larch | 650 |
| pine, fir-tree, cedar, silver-fir | 500 |
| Hardwood: | Hard to cut |
| oak, birch, beech, ash, maple, horn-beech, acacia, elm | 700 |
| Softwood: | Very easy to cut |
| aspen, poplar, alder, linden | 500 |