The dyeing of cotton fabrics : a practical handbook for the dyer and student (1901)
Beech, Franklin · London : Scott, Greenwood · leaf 17
ttle twisted. Dead fibres are thin, brittle and weak. Composition of the Cotton Fibres.—Of all the vegetabletextile fibres cotton is found to have the simplest chemicalcomposition and to be, as it were, the type substance of allsuch fibres, the others differing from it in several respects.When… … ^ (i . Fig. lA. Fig. 1.—Cotton Fibre. hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportions shown in the fol-lowing analysis:— Carbon, 442 per cent..Hydrogen, 63 per cent.,Oxygen, 49*5 per cent., which corresponds to the empirical formula C.Hj^Og, whichshows it to belong to the group of carbo-hydrates, that…
Dyes and dyeing
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