SYNTHETIC WOOL.
“WASTE OF GOOD COTTON.’’ SAYS ANALYTIC CHEMIST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 27. 2.5 p.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. 27. Mr R J. Fletcher, a prominent analytical and manufacturing chemist, has examined the recently-arrived samples of synthetic wool. He describes it as n high-grade cotton, treated by a special chemical process. It has some of the qualities of woo] and has lost some of the good qualities of cotton. It resemb’es wool only in appearance. The basis of the process of production was the treatment of long-stapled cotton with pure nitric acid and very cold temperatures. The cost of the process must he very high, and there must inevitably be difficulties in milling. The cost of manufacture could not he much less than woo 1 . H e reports against the nroduct on the ground of its lack of durability and textile strength as compared with natural wool. He describes the new fabric as a waste of good cotton.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 9
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