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Celanese Acetate LLC
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.
A relative measure of flammability that is determined as follows. A sample is ignited in an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere. The oxygen content is adjusted until the minimum required to sustain steady burning is found. The higher the value, the lower the flammability.
Industry:Textiles
A device for producing an intense beam of coherent light. It is used for cutting, spectroscopy, photography, biomedical investigations, etc.
Industry:Textiles
A milky fluid found in certain cells of some families of seed plants. Latex is the raw material from which rubber is made.
Industry:Textiles
A method of constructing fabric by interlocking series of loops of one or more yarns.
Industry:Textiles
The basic protein constituent of wool and other hair fibers.
Industry:Textiles
A bast fiber used for sacking, burlap, and twine as a backing material for tufted carpets.
Industry:Textiles
1. A woven or felted tubular sleeve for covering and shrinking on a machine roll. 2. A short coat. 3. In polymer manufacture, an external shell around a reaction vessel. For example, jacketed vessels are used when heat-transfer medium is circulated around the vessel.
Industry:Textiles
1. The amount of energy per unit (space, charge, time).<br>2. The brilliance of a color.<br>3. The brightness of light.
Industry:Textiles
Polymerization in which two reactive monomers, each dissolved in different solvents that are mutually immiscible, react at the interface between the two solutions.
Industry:Textiles
A chemical added to start a reaction such as polymerization. Unlike catalysts, initiators may be consumed during the reaction.
Industry:Textiles