Shelter and clothing; a textbook of the household arts (1916)
Kinne, Helen, 1861-1917, Cooley, Anna M. (Anna Maria), b. 1874, joint author · New York, Macmillan · leaf 193
listening. The fibers, fly and cling to the fingers. Chemically, silk fiber is composedof a center or core of fibroin, with a covering of silk albumenor sericin and a little waxycoloring matter. Fibroinis like horn or hair, ex-cept for the sulphur, thecomposition being carbon,hydrogen, nitrogen,… … FiG. 89. — Flax fibers magnified. ance, but with occasional node markings It also appearsmore woody and rough. A chemical analysis of the flax COMPARISON OF WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND FLAX 191 fiber shows it to be principally cellulose, (CsHioOs)^, asso-ciated with certain intercellular matter and…
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