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Manufactured fibers
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Manufactured fibers
core spinning
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
The process of making a corespun yarn. It consists of feeding the core yarn (an elastomeric filament yarn, a regular filament yarn, a textured yarn, or a previously spun yarn) into the front delivery ...
creeling
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
The mounting of supply packages in a creel to feed fiber to a process, i.e., beaming or warping.
clamps
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
The parts of a testing machine that are used to hold a specimen while it is subjected to force. (Also called jaws.)
coagulation
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
The precipitation of particles from a suspension in a liquid, usually resulting in formation of a gel.
crabbing
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
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.
capacitance
Textiles; Manufactured fibers
The measure of the ability of a nonconductor to store electrical energy by means of the potential difference across the surfaces of the nonconductor.
