Is cottonwood soft or hard?
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Cottonwood - or Balsam Poplar - is a soft wood.
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one's hard and one's soft
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Soft...well depends on where they're going :P I guess as long as he doesn't hurt me it doesn't matter.
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By what does one measure softness?\nThe “fluffiest” as measured by thickness is Charmin Ultra.
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Most modern sticks are made from fiberglass/aluminum or carbon fiber.  These come in either one or two-piece.  Two-piece sticks allow you to snap the blade and replace it without scrapping the whole stick.  The blades are made of wood, fiberglass, carbon, or any combination there of.  The most common wood used today is White Ash and Birch.\n\nOne piece carbon sticks are made from the inside, out.  They layer carbon fiber over and over.  Each layer gets a coat of epoxy.  This is what makes it hard.  The epoxy has very little strength and the carbon is strong but flimsy.  Think of carbon fiber as fabric and the epoxy as peanut brittle (stay with me).  If you took a slapper with just an epoxy stick, it would shatter.  If you took a slapper with just a carbon fiber stick, it would flap in the breeze.  The combination of the two gives it unbeatable strength yet still allows it to flex a bit.\n\nOld wood sticks are still around, but the preferred wood (Rock Elm) is becoming scarce.  Dutch Elm disease has wiped out most of the supply.  So now manufactures are turning to White Ash.  It's not as strong, but it's about 1/4 the price of Rock Elm.
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It is not a type of tree that produces what you are looking for.  It is a process of converting the wood/pulp to papper and layering it with layers of plastic to give it those properties.
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Because hard wood lasts longer and soft wood breaks more easily.
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Since you want to find the "strongest and most durable wooden walking stick in the world,"  I assume you mean looking for the strongest type of wood.  \n\nThe strength of wood is based on a scale called the Janka scale.  It measures how many pounds-force it takes to make force a .444 inch steel ball into wood to half its diameter.\n\n(A.K.A  its the amount of weight you need to put half of a half-inch steel marble in the would)\n\nThere are quite a few varieties of extremely hard wood.  \n\nCurupy, at around 3900lbs/f, is a wood that is often used in flooring.\n\nEbony,3200-3600 depending on the speices,  is a wood that is extremely hard and polishes well.  It has also been used for centuries as walking sticks.\n\nHowever, if you're looking for the hardest wood to make a walking stick from, it's Lignum vitae.  It possible the world's strongest wood (4500lbs/f) and is very resistant to almost everything.  The only draw back is that it is waxy.  A walking stick that slips from the grip is a bad walking stick.
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It's difficult to find a plywood any thicker than 3/4", hardwood or softwood. In dimensional lumber measurements, 1" is usually referred to as 5/4...but that's not plywood.  You might try WoodPlanet at www.woodplanet.com ... They have 1" thick sheets of 4'x8' hard maple plywood, A/A grade, good on both sides, which sounds like something you might be looking for.
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Better than that, look up some standard tables, be careful with the yarn, SiC is extremely hard.
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Ruby, a form of Corundum has a hardness of 9 on the Moh's Scale.\n\nCalcite is a 3 \nK-Spar is a 6\nAgate is a 7
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Sure could, tree-huggers are softies.
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Hard Water:\nWater containing soluble salts of calcium and magnesium and sometimes iron.\n\nSoft Water:\nWater having a low concentration of calcium and magnesium ions. According to US Geological Survey guidelines, soft water is water having a hardness of 60 milligrams per liter or less.
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From the ref. (see table 22), Douglas fir at 15% humidity has a weight per foot of 0.233 lb * cross-sectional area in square inches. (Douglas fir happens to be the only wood the ref. lists with a Dense Select Structure rating.)
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It all depends on the metal.\n\nSome metals are soft in nature, but when alloyed with others can become very hard and strong.  Combining iron and carbon with Molybdenum and Nickel can make a very hard, but brittle steel.  \n\nCopper by itself is very soft and easy to work.  Combine it with tin and you get Bronze (a harder metal) or with antimony to get brass (harder still).\n\nHeat treatments also affect the hardness.  When a metal is heated, the crystals essentially "reset" themselves to be in an amorphous state.  A rapid cooling such as a water or oil quench will cause small, tightly packed grains, creating a hard metal.  A slow cooling will result in a softer material that is easier to work with.
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Soft --- Ice Cream, my pillow, matress, gum, tacos, skin\n\nHard --- Hardcover books, rocks, the ground, my brothers head lol.\n\n\ngood enouth answers 4 yea?