- Industry: Textiles
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Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
The process of heating wool or hair fabrics, under tension, in a hot or boiling liquid, then cooling under tension, to provide the fabric with dimensional stability for further wet processing.
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 material used to cover the working surfaces of the card, i.e., cylinder and rolls or flats. The clothing consists of either wire teeth set in a foundation fabric or rubber, or narrow serrated metal flutes which are spirally arranged around the roll. The metallic wire has the appearance of band-saw blade.
Industry:Textiles
The interlocking of loops from a single thread with a hooked needle. Crocheting can be done either by hand or by machine.
Industry:Textiles
The height of displacement of the fiber from its uncrimped condition.
Industry:Textiles
The increase or decrease in length measured when a specimen is untwisted. The change is expressed as the percentage extension or contraction of the nominal gauge length of the specimen, i.e., specimen length prior to untwisting.
Industry:Textiles
The label that gives directions for cleaning, ironing, and otherwise maintaining a fabric of fiber product.
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 depositing of sliver into cylindrical cans in helical loops. This arrangement permits easy removal for further processing.
Industry:Textiles
