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What is the dress code for an actuary?
A tshirt, jeans, and a legionnaires cap
How much will pima cotton shrink?
Pima cotton will shrink as much as other cottons. Many cotton tops are prewashed for softeness, which should pre shrink them. If not preshrunk and 95-100% cotton, typically pants can shrink up to an inch in length.
How much time does it take with a cotton gin to make cotton?
100000000000000hours
What percent of clothing is made from cotton?
80%
Who is the person discovered the mean in statistics?
it was cotton candy puffs...
Does cotton have seeds in them?
Yes, cotton bolls contain seeds.
Were seeds easy to remove from the cotton ball?
No. Cotton bolls are very dense and it is hard to remove seeds by hand. Raw cotton is hard to handle and the seeds are deep within the bolls. This is why the cotton gin was so welcomed by growers. It has long teeth that pulls the bolls apart and the seeds fall out to the bottom tray.
How do you harvest the cotton boll?
you can harvest cotton bolls by hand or by machines like this one
What is the polymer for cotton?
Yes. Cotton is made of cellulose, which is a natural polymer.
Does defoliation product contaminate cotton bolls?
Cotton balls are a one-time use product .
When do organic cotton farmers harvest cotton?
The point when cotton bolls fully open and ripen is the time when organic cotton farmers harvest cotton. The picking must be done after morning dews dry since moistened or wetted bolls will be susceptible to fungus, whose treatment is a challenge organically and non-organically. It needs to be done timely since unripe bolls will not absorb dye and ripened bolls will suffer quality consequences of simultaneous challenges from environmental dew, dust and insect honeydew.
Will a cotton tshirt fray if you cut it?
not that much, but a bit more than cotton
How is cotton made into items?
Cotton has a long process to the mills. It grows on a plant that has flowers on it that become cotton bolls. The bolls are grown in large fields and in the early fall the plant is killed by a spray so the bolls will open to expose the raw cotton. Today, a mechanical cotton picker goes through the fields in early fall to get the raw cotton. It takes several times get all the cotton out of the field and the picked cotton is put in cotton wagons. When they are full the cotton is taken to the gin to process and bale. The bales are sold and eventually the cotton in them go to mills to make clothing and other items from the cotton.
Does every cell in a cotton plant produce cotton fibers?
No. Cotton plants are reproduced through their seeds. Commercial cotton -- the fibre -- is harvested from the cotton bolls what grow on the shrub.
Why was cotton at first not important crop on a plantation?
It took too long to remove the seeds from the cotton bolls; slaves did it by hand.
What does cotton boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
How do you get cuts from picking cotton from cotton fields?
The bolls which are the covers for the cotton balls as they grow, and once open enough to extract the cotton balls by hand, are paper-cut sharp.
