Vegetable fibres physical properties

As it is now possible by choice of suitable conditions to prepare most compounds in this form, the colloid state should be considered as a physical state in which all substances can be made to exist. Many ma terials such as proteins, vegetable fibres, rubber, etc. are most stable or occur naturally in the colloidal slate. In the colloidal stale the properties of surface are all-important. 

The physical properties of some important synthetic and natural fibres generally used in vegetable oil-based polymer composites are tabulated in Table 10.1. 

Table 4.4 Important physical properties of vegetable fibres used in geotextiles... 

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