which wood is more dense? Cedar, Red oak or Balsa???

Question

i have a science project and i need to find out what wood has more density?? HELP ME PLEASE

Answer 1

Red Oak. It's a hardwood and the others are softwoods. You could've easily done a search online to find the answer.

Answer 2

Red Oak, would be the most dense, next would be the Cedar, and Balsa would be among the least dense.

Red Oak and Balsa are both, technically, 'hardwoods'. This is a good example though, of how a particular species can vary from others.

Here is a good article - a bit broad perhaps, but has a lot of good info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood

I'll also note here that 'specific density' usually falls in a range for a species...it does vary a bit from sample to sample.

Have Fun

Answer 3

Red Oak is denser than Ceder or Balsa.
Red Oak is a Hard Wood, Ceder and Balsa is a Soft Wood.
It depends what you are going to do with the wood as witch one you will use. Thank you