BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Cellulose
10 Apr 2013
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Mature cotton fibre is flat and twisty. When the pods split open, they are ready to be picked. Before that is done, they spray a chemical on them that makes the leaves fall off, just fruit: cotton bolls, spray defoliant. Cotton seeds contain up to 40% oil by weight. Have a weird odour, but some guy found out how to remove odour. At harvest, seeds are removed from the fruit, then the fibres are romved from the seed. After gining, fibers are cleaned and carded (combed parallel to one another) Columbus was presented with cotton, and soon it dominated lindsey woolsey. Common to chain workers to the floor because it would keep them from falling into the. Europeans used to wear a mix of linen and wool machine if they fell asleep.
