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Burning cotton smells like burning paper because it is extracted from plant same as the paper.

Burning wool smells like burning hair because it is extracted from animals like sheep etc. and is actually the hair of the animal.

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Why burning cotton smells like burning paper whereas burning wool smells like burning hair?

Burning cotton will smell like burning paper because both cotton and paper come from plants and burning wool smells like burning hair because both wool and hair comes from animals.


Why does a stand of wool burns with the odor of burning hair while that of cotton burns with the odor of burning paper?

Wool is basically the "hair" from a sheep. So burning the sheep's hair, would produce a similar smell to burning human hair Cotton is a plant, as are the trees that make paper. Burning cotton and paper should produce similar smells. This is a basic answer that I came up with. I have no experience in burning these materials. **


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How do you use burning method to recognize fabric content?

During burning different fabric, it will cause different conditions, burning method is quite simple and easy-doing method for recognize fabric content, below is the several normal fabric specific condition when using burning method to recognize. Cotton: easy flaming, firing quickly, have the smell of burning paper, showing thin and soft flocculent in dark and grey stuff after burning. Linen: burning character is similar with cotton, have the smell of burning paper, showing thin and soft flocculent in dark and grey stuff after burning. Fur: slowly burning after fire, have the burning smell of hair, showing black carbon stuff after burning, easy breaking. Polyester(Dacron):easy-melting after burning, still continuing burning off the fire, with dense smoke, but melting stuff is not drop off, have fragrance, become hard, dark and round shape after burning. Acrylic(compound wool): melting and burning , having biting smell, burning stuff showing small dark hard ball shape. Chinlon(Nylon): fire close to melting, then self-extinguish, having celery smell, showing light tan dark lump after burning.


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What will happen if you burn cotton?

The cotton will get burned. I'm not sure what you mean by "what will happen".


How do you do a science fair experiment on the question of which material conserves heat best paper cotton or aluminum foil?

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How can you determine if a yarn is made of cotton?

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Why burning of cotton smells like paper while nylon as plastic?

well,cotton is a natural fibre ,and natural fibres contain protein.Paper also contains protein so they smell alike.While ,nylon is a synthetic fibre ,plastic is too,so they smell alike while burning.