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Is cotton wool a element

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The simple answer to your question is 'no'.


Cotton is a plant -- botany. Wool is fabricated from fleece, which is removed from animals that grow it.


Cotton wool is a misnomer on its face.


An element is a substance made up of one type of atom.



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No, wool is the hair cut from sheep. It is a polymer made up of several elements.

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it is a element.

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Given all the definitions of the word substance, one can safely say that yes, wool is a substance.

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Wool is not classified chemically as either an element or a compound: it is a biological resource fabricated from fleece-bearing animals.

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Wool is made from animal fleece.

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