Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Manufactured fibers

Desulfurizing

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

An aftertreatment to remove sulphur from newly spun viscose rayon by passing the yarn through a sodium sulphide solution.

Donegal

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A tweed fabric with colourful slubs woven in, donegal is used for suits and coats.

Emulsion polymerization

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A three-phase reaction system consisting of monomer, an aqueous phase containing the initiator, and colloidal particles of polymer. Polymerization takes place in the colloidal phase. The process ...

Elmendorf tear tester

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

A tester designer to determine the tearing strength of paper. It is also used to measure the tearing strength of very lightweight fabrics and resin-finished apparel fabrics. A trapezoidal fabric ...

Doffer loading

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Fibres imbedded so deeply into the doffer wire clothing that the doffer comb cannot dislodge them to form a travelling web.

Epitropic fibres

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Fibres with an altered surface property, e.g., electrically conducting, abrasive, etc.

Anthraquinone dyes

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Dyes that have anthraquinone as their base and the carbonyl group (>C=O) as the chromophore. Anthraquinone-based dyes are found in most of the synthetic dye classes.