# Heating wood with no Oxygen

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 20, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heating-wood-with-no-oxygen/707750 "2014-12-20T16:40:37Z")\
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I don’t know enough about this to judge but, I believe you are talking about “Case Hardening” or “Surface Hardening” the McGill, Hill, series of forestry and wood product books covers this a little but I thing they are out of print.

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