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106 ARTIFICIALLY MADE FIBRES BASED ON CELLULOSE
pleated using dry heat or steam. Heat setting of triacetate fabrics improves their
dimensional stability so they do not shrink or wrinkle on dyeing, or on washing,
but the process increases the crystallinity and the rate of dyeing is reduced. The
mechanical properties of triacetate fibres are close to those of the secondary
acetate but it does not lose a great deal of strength when wet. It gives fabrics with
a firm crisp handle, less soft than that of the diacetate.
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3. J Taylor, ‘Tencel – A Unique Cellulosic Fibre’, J.S.D.C., 114 (1998) 191.
4. H W Steinmann, ‘Cellulose Acetate Fibers’, in Handbook of Fiber Science and Technology, Vol IV, Fiber
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