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Wool
Wool is the fiber obtained from mainly sheep as well as other certain animals. Wool is made to make clothing, often socks and sweaters.
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How is the grade of wool determined?
Wool is graded according to the diameter of the fibre, its crimp, yield, staple strength and colour.
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Did Romans get their wool from Spain or Italy?
Yes, the Romans had wool. Their togas were made of wool and Roman weavers could weave wool into different weights. At the beginning of the city, a girl or woman had to be able to "work in wool" in order to be considered for marriage.
Can a wool blanket be machine washed?
Yes. but if you wash it with cold water it will shrink. Cold water and 1 1/2 cups of salt. It stops the color(s) from running. After washing in cold water spread out on a sweater rack, and if you don't have one, spread it out on a thick towel then roll the towel to get the excess dampness out of the sweater; put on another dry thick towel and spread sweater across it to air dry (gently pull sweater into shape and run palms down the sweater to get any wrinkles out.)
Is cashmere wool a sustainable material?
Cashmere wool is produced by goats and is a renewable resource. We can always get more as it grows on goats. But it is not sustainable. Goats have a devastating impact on the environment, eating vegetation right down to its roots and killing the plant, and their hard hooves tear up the topsoil. China produces a lot of cashmere but the cashmere region is beginning to look like the dust bowls of the US in the 1930s. As the goat's feed dies away, and the topsoil blows away, there may be no arable land left for anything.
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What is the chemical formula of wool?
There's none. Wool came from sheep!
Wool belongs to a group of proteins (chemicals!) known as keratins. Unlike cotton and the majority of synthetic fibres, wool does not have a homogenous structure. Wool fibres have highly complex physical and chemical compositions.
What are the aesthetic properties of wool?
Excellent insulating qualities, water-resistant/wicking (natural oils from the sheep), long lasting (animal protein fiber).
What is the softest wool in the world?
My individual experience is not exhaustive, but the softest wool I've held in my hands comes from baby yaks.
Merino wool has a reputation for being softer that most wool baby llama, baby alpaca and other baby animal fleeces may be the source for the softest wool.
1. it is 90% wool, and 10% semen.
2. Recursively, that 90% is also 90% wool and 10% semen.
3. It itches
4. It makes your skin all red and scratchy
5. It can't fly.
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What happens when rub an ebonite with a wool cloth?
The ebonite rod will gather a static electric charge, as electrons are transferred.
The term harvest implies that a resource -- in this case fleece -- has been removed from its source, which in this case is probably an animal that grows fleece.
New Zealand is the second largest producer and exporter of wool in the world. This country exports a little over 150 million pounds of wool each year.
Soft, fluffy, whatever you think of when you hear "cotton wool".
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you may not recycle ick golckma
nobdy like you Evan god hates you
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Answer nr. 2
Contrary to the logic expressed in the first answer, packing more tightly, glass wool would insulate slightly better, According to Izi, (sales person at Golmat ltd.). Doubling the thickness of glass wool insulation will double the insulating ratio, while doubling the density will increase the insulation ratio by about 15%.
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most likely decrease. most insulation materials are based on trapping air which is a great insulator, by compressing them you would be pussing the air out and reducing insulation value.
