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bark so good at trapping air it laughs at gravity and wine alike
means The buoyant, springy outer bark of the cork oak, used chiefly to stopper bottles — or, by extension, the stopper itself.
from From Spanish 'alcorque' (a cork-soled shoe), which traces back through Arabic to Latin 'quercus,' meaning 'oak.' The cork oak of the western Mediterranean has been stripped of its thick, regrowing bark for stoppers since antiquity, and the wood lent its name to the airy stuff that floats.
- renewable
- harvested every nine years, the tree survives untouched
- fireproof
- cork forests resist wildfires that level neighbors
- buoyant
- 50 million air cells per cubic centimeter
- space-tested
- NASA used cork on rocket heat shields
- longevity
- a cork oak yields for over 150 years
for instance
cork ireland — city in ireland, second largest by population with ~125,000 people
cork oak — tree species (quercus suber) native to mediterranean region, harvested for cork bark
cork county — county in munster province, ireland, covers 2,896 square kilometers