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Cotton
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Are all pillows filled with cotton or feathers?
No, now there are so many different pillows they are filled with many different things. Pillows range from bring filled with memory foam to scrap fabrics.
What can you make from cotton?
Shirt, T-Shirt, Jacket, Pullover, Sweater, Pants, Skirt, Hat, Handkerchief, Socks, Shoes, etc.
There are a lot of cotton type, where we can make difference through its quality and or its weight per square meter.
They also has their own unique name based on their quality such as:
Herringbone for fabric with cross fish bone alike on its surface,
Railroad Stripe for fabric with black and white stripe like road,
Double Twisted Twill for fabric with crossline on the surface,
Twill for fabric with smooth line on the surface,
Ribstop for fabric with tiny square on its construction.
Cotton Canvas for fabric with surface like basketball surface.
and many more, because cotton are developing all the time and create new type of it.
We can see the difference through handfeel of each cotton fabric or see the construction on the surface of the fabric.
Who cares how about that
How do you prepare cotton blue solution from the cotton blue powder?
In order to reduce the possible volatile and long-term exposure effects of L-P CB, a reagent lacking phenol was developed to analyze inertial impaction samples. To date, approximately 20 000 individual spore-trap samples (Air-O-Cell cassette and Allergenco MK-5 Multi Trace Slide, Zefon International, St. Petersburg, Florida) have been analyzed using the new reagent, hereafter called Lacto-Cotton Blue (LCB). The recipe for Lacto-Cotton Blue mounting medium is: glycerol 250 mL (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri), 85% lactic acid 100 mL (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri), 3 mL of cotton blue stock, and de-ionized water 50 mL. A stock solution of Cotton Blue stain is made to add to the mounting medium: 85% lactic acid 99 mL, Aniline (Cotton) Blue crystals 1.0 g (Fisher Scientific, Los Angeles, California).
To make the Cotton Blue stock solution, first add cotton blue crystals to lactic acid while stirring vigorously on a stir-plate. Stir until cotton-blue crystals are dissolved. Next, vacuum filter the solution through a #50 Whatmann 90 mm filter disc (Fisher Scientific, Los Angeles, California) in a Büchner porcelain funnel. Cover the orifice of the porcelain funnel to insure airborne particulate matter cannot enter the reagent mixture. After filtration has occurred, check the clarity of the stock dye solution. Place one drop of the dye on a clean microslide with a 22 × 22 mm cover slip and examine at 400×. Particles of dye should be approximately 2 μm or less in diameter. If large clumps of dye are observed, repeat vacuum filtration of the dye solution until the appropriate clarity is obtained.
The next step is to make the LCB mounting medium. First, mix the water, lactic acid, and glycerine (in that order) for one hour on a stir-plate. Once the solution is homogenous, add three mL of Cotton Blue stock solution to the water, lactic acid, and glycerine solution. Stir the entire mixture for an additional hour. Cover the flask with laboratory film (Parafilm, Fisher Scientific, Los Angeles, California) while the mixture is stirring to insure against airborne contamination.
How is cotton processed into cotton balls?
if you mean "what are the stages of processing cotton than this is your answer.
1. Step 1: Cotton fibres come from the seed pod/boll of the cotton plant. This pod is big and brown, full of cotton wool and seeds. When the boll is ripe, it bursts open ready to be harvested.
Step 2: After the bolls have been harvested by a machine, they are then fed into a cotton gin. This particular machine separates the cotton from the seeds.
Step 3: Then the cotton is pressed into bales so that it can be taken to a factory or mill where it can be cleaned properly.
Step 4: In the cotton mill or factory, the cotton fibres are formed into a fluffy sheet called lap. The lap then goes into a carding machine where wire toothed rollers gently teases the fibres apart. This machine straightens out the fibres and gathers them into loose ropes. They are called silvers.
Step 5: Next, the loose ropes are twisted together by rollers. This makes the ropes stronger and thinner. This process is known as roving or drawing.
Step 6: Lastly, the spinning frame twists the roving into a finer yarn. The yarn is then wound onto a round piece of metal called a bobbin.
Use the washing machine on a 30- or 40-degree wash cycle. Anything hotter than that and the material starts to almost rot away over time. Wash white items separately from color ones. Add a fabric softener; it's a must. Do not place the clothes to be dried on a radiator... it makes them go hard. If you have no tumble dryer, use the good old washing lines outside, or hang the clothes on a portable dryer. It's best to iron cotton fabrics -- in particular shirts -- when they are almost dry... it makes life much easier.
Does a cotton ball have holes in it?
Yes, you could say this. The holes, however, are irregular and could be described as pockets.
How do you get cotton on zOMG?
You can receive cotton from the Air Fluff in Bill's Ranch. Go to Larry in the southeast of Bill's Ranch, he's standing next to Klaus Klokenmeyer.
In today's society it is picked by a machine in the fields. Back before the machine was invented slaves or others did it by hand and picked out the seeds. Now the machine sorts and picks out the seeds.
What is being done about cotton farming damaging the soil?
crop rotation
solor soil disinfection
soil fumigation
adding of green compost
green manure
I think its just a dodgy translation of the PP (polypropylene) stuffing as used in stuffed toys etc.
Source: I just received a dodgy translation of the materials used in a stuffed toy and experience.
What dou mean TBC cotton fibre requirement?
I feel its Towards Better Cotton ,through better cultivation practices,use of Non GMO cotton seeds and sustainable cultivation with the minimun use of fertilizers and pesticide
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Cotton duck is a class of woven cotton material, commonly known as canvas. Two yarn strands are woven together as warp with a single yarn weft. Duck is used in sandbags, tents and sneakers, for example.
Can cotton be put in a compost bin?
Yes, cotton can be put in a compost bin. The material in question counts among the organic materials which can be broken down or recycled. It needs to be cut into small pieces since tiny pieces facilitate the decompositional processes and favor the proper distribution of air, heat, light, and moisture.
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
Which is the season for cotton?
Cotton can be worn in any season. Cotton under clothing can be worn year around.
Whilst many people believe it was Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin, the real brains behind it was a woman called Catherine Littlefield Greene.
She developed the blueprints and got Eli to make it (at the time he was the tutor of Catherine's neighbours children) and when his first attempt didn't work, Catherine managed to solve the problem. The reason Eli gets all the credit is simply because in those times, women weren't allowed to take out patents.
Catherine Littlefield Greene was born in 1755 and died in 1814 with 5 children. Her husband died shortly after they were married.
Eli Whitney was the one who built the first cotton gin. The cotton gin was built the year 1793.
How did people separate cotton before the cotton gin?
Plantation owners had slaves picking and seperating cotton with their bare hands.
It is usually followed by people with serve eating disorders, cotton wool balls are soaked in orange juice and swallowed as they expand in the stomach making a person feel full.
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Percale is a closely woven plain-weave fabric often used for bed linens. The term describes the weave of the fabric, not its content, so percale can be a 50/50 blend of cotton and polyester, 100% cotton, or a blend of other fabrics in any ratio. [1] A percale weave has a thread count of about 200 or higher, and is noticeably tighter than the standard type of weave used for bed-sheets. It has medium weight, is firm and smooth with no gloss, and warps and washes very well. It is made from both carded and combed yarns. Percale fabrics are made in both solid colors and printed patterns. The finish of the fabric is independent of its weave, so it can be either printed or unprinted. Percale was originally imported from India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries [2], then manufactured in France. [3] The word may originate from the Persian pargālah, 'rag', [4], although the Oxford English Dictionary (Dec. 2005) has traced it only as far as 18th-century French.
