ARTIFICIAL WOOL
"A WASTE OF GOOD COTTON” AUSTRALIAN CHEMISTS REPORT 1 PRODUCTION COSTS HIGH By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 27. Mr J. Fletcher, a prominent analytical and manufacturing chemist, has examined the recently-arrived samples of synthetic wool, and 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 onlv in appearance. The basis, of the process of produc-
tion, he said, was treatment of longstapled cotton with pure nitric acid and very cold temperatures. The cost of the process must be very high, and there must inevitably be difficulties in milling. The cost of manufacture could not be much less than that of wool. . He reports against the product on the ground of its lack of durability and tensile strength as compared with natural wool. He describes the new fabric sb a waste of good cotton.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12356, 28 January 1926, Page 5
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