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How many pairs of jeans can be made from a bale of cotton lint?
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What happens after cotton is ginned?
After ginning, the raw fiber, now called lint, makes its way through another series of pipes to a press where it is compressed into bales (lint packaged for market), banded with eight steel straps, sampled for classing, wrapped for protection then loaded onto trucks for shipment to storage yards, textile mills and foreign countries. The cotton industry has adopted a standard for a bale of cotton, 55 inches tall, 28 inches wide, and 21 inches thick, weighing approximately 500 pounds. A bale meeting these requirements is called a universal density bale. This is enough cotton to make 325 pairs of denim jeans.Every bale of cotton is classed from a sample taken after its formation. The classing of cotton lint is the process of measuring fiber characteristics against a set of standards (grades). Classing is done by experts, called classers, who use scientific instruments to judge the samples of lint. All standards are established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Once the quality of the cotton bale is determined, pricing parameters are set and the lint may be taken to market. Cotton marketing is the selling and buying of cotton lint. Cotton is priced in cents per pound when sold and the price is negotiated according to the cotton's quality. After baling, the cotton lint is hauled to either storage yards, textile mills, or shipped to foreign countries. The cotton seed is delivered to a seed storage area. Where it will remain until it is loaded into trucks and transported to a cottonseed oil mill or directly for livestock feed.
How much does a round bale of cotton weigh?
Based on a round round bale with a maximum diameter of 7 feet, 6 inches, the seed cotton weight can be up to 5,000 pounds and hold 3.8 bales of cotton lint.
What is the meaning of cotton lint?
Cotton lint is the fibre derived from seed cotton after the seed cotton has been ginned. Seed cotton is the ball of the cotton plant as picked from the field.
What are the elements of cotton?
Cotton lint from the bush is nearly all cellulose.
What is a lint free cloth?
A lint free cloth is a cloth that does give off residue or fluff when it is being used. Common types of lint free cloths include cotton tee shirts and cotton diapers.
Disadvantage of upland or greenseed cotton was?
It was very difficult to separate the seeds from the lint. Lint is a fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
How is the cotton on swabs different from the cotton in clothes?
The differences are in the fabrication of the raw cotton lint into absorbent cotton for swabs and spun cotton that is woven into fabric for clothing.
A disadvantage of upland or greenseed cotton was that it?
was very difficult to separate the seeds from the lint.
What is a spore or fungus that looks like cotton candy or dryer lint?
mucor
What are pharmaceutic cotton balls made?
if you dont have cotton balls to remove nail polish dryer lint workks too ;]]
How is lint different from cotton?
Cotton is a little more soft but they are pretty much the same thing. They are both used for clothing.
What is 'brushed cotton'?
brushed cotton is cotton fabric that is brushed to remove all excess lint and fibers from the fabric, leaving an ultra soft, smooth finish.
