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A less technical use of the term "cotton wool", in the UK and Ireland, is for the refined product known as "absorbent cotton" (or, often, just "cotton") in U.S. usage: fluffy cotton in sheets or balls used for medical, cosmetic, protective packaging, and many other practical purposes.
The word "cotton" has Arabic origins, derived from the Arabic word قطن (qutn or qutun).This was the usual word for cotton in medieval Arabic. [3] The word entered the Romance languages in the mid-12th century, [4] and English a century later.
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine" [1] [2] —is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. [3] The separated seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil .
The cotton textile industry was responsible for a large part of India's international trade. [78] India had a 25% share of the global textile trade in the early 18th century. [79] Indian cotton textiles were the most important manufactured goods in world trade in the 18th century, consumed across the world from the Americas to Japan. [76]
Spinning mills in Ancoats, Manchester, England – representation of a mill-dominated townscape. A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, [1] an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system.
A senior lawyer representing Shein repeatedly refused to say whether the company sells products containing cotton from China, prompting one MP to brand her evidence "ridiculous". Yinan Zhu ...
While the full FarmVille update hasn't been released for this evening, we did come across an interesting change to one of the game's established crops - Cotton. Cotton used to be one of the more ...
Cotton is the primary natural fibre used by humans today, amounting to about 80% of world natural fibre production. [5] Where cotton is cultivated, it is a major oilseed crop and a main protein source for animal feed.