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For some critical applications (such as polymer melt, beverage, or pharmaceutical filtration), it may be important to avoid cartridges that have a nap or fuzz on the fiber used, because these extremely fine fibers tend to break off and drift through the cartridge and go out with the finished product, thereby creating a isual acceptance problem, if not outi ight contamination. 

Collon fibers, especially Ihe fuzz, are frequently used to stuff mattresses, pads and upholstered furniture. Treated with chemicals that remove the thin coaling of waxy substances that cover the fibers, the latter becomes absorbent coiton, which is capable of absorbing many times its weight of water. 

Mechanical Properries. Acetate and triacetate have a tenacity in the range of (1.10-0.12 N/tex tl.l-1.4 gl/den 1 with a breaking elongation of about 25-30%. Compared to other common textile libers, acetate and triacetate are relatively weak. e.g.. 20-25 3 the tenacity of polyester. This is not necessarily a disadvantage, because fabric construction can bo used to obtain the desired fabric performance targets. Pilling, the accumulation of fuzz balls on the fabric with wear, is not a problem as It is with the higher tenacity fibers. 

The relatively long fiber lengths (about 1 in. (25.4 mm) or longer) on the cottonseed relate to the fiber that is used by the textile industry. This raw cotton fiber, which can be spun into textile yarns, is called lint. However, another type of fiber, linters or fuzz fibers, which are very short, is also produced on the seed along with the lint [44]. The distribution of the lint and fuzz fibers over the seed surface is neither uniform nor random. The base of the seed mostly produces lint fibers, whereas cells near the tip of the seed mostly produce fuzz fibers. 

Berlin, J.D. and Watson, M., Fine structural differentiation of lint and fuzz fibers, Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Production Research Conferences, National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, TN, 1974, p. 52. 

Also for SMC (and described as the next generation of reinforcement) is Roving 23C from Vetrotex. It is easily chopped with good fiber distribution, fast wet-through, wet-out, and generating low fuzz and fly. It is particularly suited to molding of automobile doors, wings, boot lids, spoilers, cross-car beams and other components. 

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