- Industry: Textiles
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Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Loss of color by a fabric or yarn when immersed in water, a solvent, or a similar liquid medium, as a result of improper dyeing or the use of dyes of poor quality. Fabrics that bleed can cause staining of white or light shade fabrics in contact with them while wet.
Industry:Textiles
Charcoal, mostly of vegetable origin, of high adsorptive capacity. It is used for decolorizing liquids and other adsorption purifications. Usually made by carbonization and chemical activation.
Industry:Textiles
Chemical attraction; the tendency of two elements or substances to unite or combine, such as fiber and dyestuff.
Industry:Textiles
In this knit construction, purl and plain loops are combined with a preponderance of purl loops in the pattern courses to give a basket-weave effect.
Industry:Textiles
In textiles, properties perceived by touch and sight, such as the hand, color, luster, drape, and texture of fabrics or garments.
Industry:Textiles
In textiles, materials which cause fibers, yarns, or fabrics to stick together or to other materials.
Industry:Textiles
In nonwovens, the movement of adhesive together with its carrier solvent in a fabric during drying, giving it a non-uniform distribution within the web, usually increasing to the outer layers.
Industry:Textiles
In general, the relative humidity, barometric pressure, and temperature existing at a given time.
Industry:Textiles
In a plied yarn or cord, an arrangement of twist which will not cause the yarn or cord to twist on itself of kink when held in an open loop.
Industry:Textiles
