- Industry: Textiles
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The process of measuring quantities of absorbed or evolved heat, often used to determine specific heat.
Industry:Textiles
The measure of the ability of a nonconductor to store electrical energy by means of the potential difference across the surfaces of the nonconductor.
Industry:Textiles
The generic name of a group of processes for separating and analyzing mixtures of chemical compounds. The separation depends on the redistribution of molecules of the mixture between phases, one of which is thin, often reaching molecular dimensions. For this reason, molecular size and shape are important in the separation, and extremely subtle separations are possible.
Industry:Textiles
The extremely soft hair of the Cashmere goat. Cashmere is often blended with sheep’s wool in fabrics.
Industry:Textiles
The force that holds fibers together during yarn manufacturing or processing. It is usually a function of lubricant (type and amount) and fiber crimp.
Industry:Textiles
The formation of highly-ordered substances (crystals) from solutions or melts. In polymers, crystalline areas are interspersed with amorphous areas in a lattice-like network.
Industry:Textiles
The ability of a fiber to yield under stress; the ratio of the change in strain to the change in stress that produces it; the reciprocal of the textile modulus.
Industry:Textiles
Refers to the ease of reducing the bulk of fabric, carpet, batting, or other material. May be high or low, soft or hard.
Industry:Textiles
Performance parameter of apparel referring to wearability. Encompasses such properties as wicking, stretch, hand, etc.
Industry:Textiles
