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Textiles
Any cloth, woven or knitted fabric; especially the raw materials that are used to make clothing.
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delayed deformation
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
Deformation that is time-dependent and is exhibited by material subjected to a continuing load; creep. Delayed deformation may be recoverable following removal of the applied ...
evenness testing
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
Determination of the variation in weight per unit length and thickness of yarns or fibers aggregates such as roving, sliver, or top.
desulfurizing
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
An aftertreatment to remove sulfur from newly spun viscose rayon by passing the yarn through a sodium sulfide solution.
premetallized dyes
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
Acid dyes that are treated with coordinating metals such as chromium. This type of dye has much better wetfastness than regular acid dye. Premetallized dyes are used on nylon, ...
drawn tow
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
A zero-twist bundle of continuous filaments that has been stretched to achieve molecular orientation. (Tows for staple and spun yarn application are usually crimped.)
space dyeing
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
A yarn-dyeing process in which each strand is dyed with more that one color at irregular intervals. Space dyeing produces an effect of unorganized design in subsequent fabric ...
denier
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
A weight-per-unit-length measure of any linear material. Officially, it is the number of unit weights of 0.05 grams per 450-meter length. This is numerically equal to the weight ...
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