One of the important characteristics of cotton is the type of its fibers and the characteristics of cotton fibers. These features make this plant unique and make it suitable for the textile industry. It may be interesting to you that in some textile industries, beeswax is used along with cotton to enhance some properties of cotton.
♦️elastic property of fibers ♦️
Cotton fibers do not have much elasticity and if they face a lot of tension, they cannot easily return to their original state.
Cellulose in cotton fibers absorbs 7 to 8% of its weight of water. It is interesting to know that the strength of cotton fibers increases by 20 to 30% after absorbing water. Because these fibers increase in diameter and length after absorbing water, and after drying, they return to their previous state.
Cotton fibers have good heat resistance and can withstand 120 degrees Celsius for hours. Then it turns yellow and decomposes at a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius, and at a temperature of 240 degrees Celsius it burns completely after a few minutes and disappears.
♦️ The effect of sunlight on Fibers ♦️
Cotton fibers turn yellow when exposed to sunlight and lose their strength and rot in a long time.
♦️ The property of fat in Fibers ♦️
The fat in cotton fibers does not absorb water and remains on the water, but if this fat is removed from these fibers with the help of organic solvents such as chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. Cotton absorbs a lot of water.
♦️ Solubility in acids ♦️
The experiments show that cotton dissolves in hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid, but it cannot dissolve cotton fibers in acetic acid. . For cotton rose dyeing, organic acids are used that do not have much effect on the fibers. In addition, soda solution, which is a strong open sample, makes cotton fibers transparent, and these fibers become transparent like silk after washing with water and drying them. This action, together with the stretching mode, causes the cotton threads to gain more tensile strength and absorb the color well and become so-called artificial silk. Fibers ♦️
Strong oxidizing substances such as bleaching water and hydrogen peroxide are used to bleach cotton fabrics. If the cotton remains in these materials for a long time, it becomes whiter, but the resistance of its fibers decreases accordingly.
🔻🔺 Medicinal uses of cotton plant 🔻🔺
Another important feature of cotton that is less paid attention to is the medicinal properties of this plant. Of course, when talking about the medicinal properties of cotton, some people think that the white fibers of cotton must have medicinal properties. While cotton is a plant that has leaves, flowers, stems and roots. All these parts of the cotton plant can have medicinal properties. It is interesting to know that cotton seed oil is one of the best oils in the world, which has many uses in traditional medicine of different countries and is still used in production industries today. Oil is used. Due to the presence of gossypol, cotton seed oil has many properties for humans. It is used to improve childbirth in natural childbirth and it is still used in this field. Decoction of cotton leaves is antipyretic. It is even said that the strained decoction of cotton itself can help reduce fever. Cotton leaves can reduce inflammation and swelling. Also, the pounded leaves of the cotton plant are used in combination with some other substances to reduce inflammation in the treatment of gout. It is used to enhance sexual power. Some studies in traditional medicine have shown that the consumption of cotton seed flour can increase the number of sperm in men and treat infertility in men.