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Why was cotton Raw state of cotton before it produced into cotton?
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Cotton is a plant where the seeds and the parts of those seeds (the soft white fluff) are harvested. This fluff then goes to a factory to be woven into fibrous material called cotton fibre.
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Does raw cotton come before or after it goes through the cotton gin?
"Raw" cotton means cotton that is unginned.
What development led to an increased need for slaves in the South?
The invention of the cotton gin (short for cotton engine or cotton seeding machine, automating the removal of the seeds from raw cotton), which made massive cultivation of cotton economical. Cheap labor (i.e. slaves) were needed to harvest the large quantity of raw cotton produced.
What is raw cotton?
Raw cotton is cotton straight off the plant. Cotton grows on a bushy type of plant that is planted each spring. The plant has flowers on it that become cotton bolls. In the fall the plant is killed , so the cotton can be picked. The bolls open and you have raw unprocessed cotton. A cotton picker goes through the field and gets the raw cotton off of the dead stems. It takes about 3 times before the field is cleaned. The picked cotton is put into big trailers and taken to a cotton gin where the seeds are removed and packed into bales. Raw cotton is dense and can itch when you touch it.
How do you clean raw cotton?
you clean raw cotton with take it to the gin.
How did the cotton gin affect industries?
When the cotton gin was invented it caused the growth in cotton and slaves. Before the gin a slave had to handpick the seeds out of the raw cotton bole. Raw cotton is very dense and the seeds are small so picking them out was labor intensive. The cotton gin allowed the seeds to be removed by a turning of a lever with a brush pulling the cotton apart. More cotton could be grown and processed which meant the need for more slaves to work in the cotton growing, picking, and processing. The amount of bales produced equals the growth of the number of slaves. By 1864 there were 4 million slaves in the southern plantations.
What is raw unfinished cotton?
Raw, unfinished cotton is the term used for cotton which has just been removed from the plant. It looks similar to cotton balls.
What is cotton mad of?
Cotton is made of raw cotton fibre which grows in cotton plants.
Is embroidery thread a raw material or finished product?
A finished product. Cotton in its natural state is very loose fibres. Processing twists the cotton into strong threads.
What are the raw materials used for make cotton?
cotton is a raw material it is mainly grown in china or Pakistan but due to floods there the price in cotton has risen
What are the main raw material of cotton spinning?
Cotton fiber
What invention helped to clean raw cotton?
The Cotton Gin
What are the raw materials used for making cotton clothes?
cotton is a raw material it is mainly grown in china or Pakistan but due to floods there the price in cotton has risen
