- Industry: Textiles
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The efficiency of the carding process, expressed as a percentage obtained from ratio of sliver output to staple input.
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 fraction of the surface area that is covered by yarns assuming round yarn shape.
Industry:Textiles
The covering material used on various fiber-processing rolls, especially drawing rolls. Leather, cork, rubber, and synthetic materials are frequently employed.
Industry:Textiles
The commercial moisture regain plus a specific allowance for finish used in calculating the commercial or legal weight of a fiber shipment.
Industry:Textiles
The collection of colloidal particles into droplets held together by electrostatic attraction. This term for the equilibrium state of colloidal systems was introduced in 1929.
Industry:Textiles
Strictly, a polymer, in cyclic form, that contains three repeating groups. Cyclic trimer is a by-product found in all commercial polyester and results in deposit buildup in package-dyeing equipment.
Industry:Textiles
