SYNTHETIC WOOL
MELBOURNE ANALYST’S REPORT “WASTE OF GOOD COTTON.” MELBOURNE, Jan. 27, Mr R. J. Fletcher, a prominent analytical, and manufacturing.chemist, examined the recently arrived samples of synthetic wool. He describes it as a high-grade cotton treated by a special chemical process. It has some of the qualities of wool and has lost some of the good qualities of cotton. It resembles wool only in appearance^ The .basis of the process of production was the treatmeiit of long-stapled: cotton with pure nitric acid, and very cold temperatures. The cost of the process he very, high,, and tlihre nuist inevitably be difficulties in moil- , ing-.. '• . ; The cost of,.manufacture could not he ,niucli. less, than that .’of wool. He reports'against the product on the ground of .ite lack , of durability land. tenbilel strength,--asr. compared ;Avitn ( imitirar.’ wboL ' He describes Uhe 'new--fabric as a waste of good cotton.—-" u.ux
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11013, 28 January 1926, Page 5
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