RAYON FROM RICE.
Japan, like 'lernmiiy, is turning to chemistry in an effort to find cheap substitutes for expensive products. I'ntil recently. Japanese threw away some 4.(MM1,<i60.000 pounds of rice husks every year. Now they're using that to make lavon! Actually, however, that's not so startling. Kayon always has been made from cellulose, a product of wood or cotton fibres. J*ice husks are composed of the same material. l{avon starts as a solution dissolved from'pulp. This is "squirted" through a tiny noy.y.le; it hardens as it hits the air. So Hue are the fibres, 'about 2(1 have to be combined to make one workable thread.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)
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