It can produce hydrogen cyanide. A few parts per million and your dead!
A pure silk can burn at about 148 degrees. However, the silk present in fabric has a lot of chemicals added to it and is prone to burn at a far lower temperature.
Silk is natural. It is produced by silkworms.
Natural silk comes from silk worms while artificial silk is made of cotton. Natural silk has a beautiful sheen to it. Go to the links and see this beautiful silk fabric.
Natural silk is made from the cocoons of silkworms; artificial silk is basically plastic.
No, silk is a natural fibre.
a natural fiber
made by silk worms
After natural burning of natural silk an ash remain and the smell is strong; the burning of artificial silk can be total.
Silk comes from silkworms -- its only source for natural silk.
Silk is not a compound; silk is a mixture of natural proteins.
Japan has developed technology for producing a synthetic spider silk with the same qualities as natural spider silk. Not all synthetic silk has the same qualities as the natural silk though.
natural. silk is made by silk wormsSilk is a natural fibre produced by silk worms -- moths, really -- that spin cocoons which, when unraveled upon the death of the worm, become silk strands.