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MERCERIZATION

caustic soda, cotton, fibers

 

A procedure patented by John Mercer in 1844 and subsequently further refined.

It consisted of immersing cotton thread wound in skeins and stretched into solutions of caustic soda, to re-inflate the fibers and make them shiny and stable.

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