Cotton Egyptian

Cotton is a bushlike, subtropical plant about 3-4i ft. high. It contains about 93% cellulose in the seed hairs. Early cotton cultures existed in India (ca. 1 500 B.C.) and Peru (ca. 500 B.C.). In 1974, the United States produced 21%, the Soviet Union 20%, the Indian subcontinent 14%, Communist China 12%, Brazil 5%, and Egypt 4% of world cotton. Egyptian cotton has the greatest staple length and is therefore the most expensive. 

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Small-scale field trials with fully stabilised micro-encapsulated formulations were carried out in Egypt during 1980 on two cotton pests - pink bollworm, Peotinophora gossypiella, and the Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. Plots of 10 n x 10m were sprayed with the formulation and there were three replicates of each treatment. A plastic funnel trap (3) baited with synthetic pheromone was positioned at the centre of each plot. The effectiveness and persistence of communication disruption were measured by the reduction in catches of male moths in the traps in the treated plots relative to the catches in similar traps in untreated, control plots. 

Cottonseed Oil (Unhydrogenated) occurs as a dark red-brown oil. It is obtained from the seed of the cotton plant Gossypium hirsutum (American) or Gossypium barbadense (Egyptian) by mechanical expression or solvent extraction. It is refined, bleached, and deodorized to substantially remove free fatty acids, phospholipids, color, odor and flavor components, and miscellaneous other non-oil materials. It is liquid at 21° to 27°, clouds at 21°, and partially solidifies at storage temperatures... 

An Egyptian study of 52 cotton labourers working in the Menoufiya Governate found that 88% of participants had never used protective clothing . Only 6% of workers reported frequently wearing face masks over their nose and mouth. 

B.C. Egyptians wear clothing comprised of cotton fibers... 

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Scoured and bleached American cotton have carboxyl contents of 0.8-0.9 Egyptian cotton 1.16-1.74. Unbuffered Methylene Blue solutions give lower values viz., 0.45 and 0.65 respectively. Methylene Blue absorption of cotton depends on the ash alkalinity of the cotton and the value decreases as the ash alkalinity decreases. 

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