- Industry: Textiles
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Used as a filter medium in fiber manufacture, particularly used in spinning packs for nylon or polyester production.
Industry:Textiles
Specifically in relation to manufactured fibers, saponification is the process of removing part or all of the groups from acetate or triacetate fiber, leaving regenerated cellulose.
Industry:Textiles
A fabric condition in which the surface resembles sandpaper. Principal causes are the shuttle rebounding in the box, jerky or loose shuttle tension, an incorrectly timed harness, and wild twist in the filling.
Industry:Textiles
A chemical that, when added to the dyebath, decreases the rate of dyeing but does not affect the final exhaustion.
Industry:Textiles
1. A general term for solid or semi-solid natural organic substances, usually of vegetable origin and amorphous and yellowish to brown, transparent or translucent, and soluble in alcohol or ether but not in water. 2. Any of a large number of manufactured products made by polymerization or other chemical processes and having the properties of natural resins.
Industry:Textiles
Ratio of the viscosity of the polymer in solution to that of the solvent expressed as time of efflux of the solution divided by the time of efflux of the solvent at constant temperature.
Industry:Textiles
The ratio of the actual vapor pressure of moisture in air to the saturation vapor pressure at ambient temperature.
Industry:Textiles
A material which begins as cellulose but at some stage in the chemical processing takes the form of another chemical compound, then appears again in its completed state as cellulose. Viscose and cuprammonium rayons are regenerated cellulose.
Industry:Textiles
A textured yarn of one variant that develops bulk by the air-jet texturing method.
Industry:Textiles
