TY - JOUR AU - PERES, HANA AB - NATURE No. 4S5o October 13, 1962 153 humidity. The values of the crimp parameters for 103-60, issued by the Agricultural Research Service, the Deltapine fibres were at all loads up to 25 mg United States Department of Agriculture. found to be considerably higher than the correspond­ MENACHEM LEWIN ing values for the Acala fibres. YVETTE LITAV The mean values of D and 0 obtained when a MIRIAM SHILOH load of 5 mg was applied to the fibres are given Institute for Fibres and Forest Products Research, in Table l. Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Jerusalem, Israel. Table 1 Delta pine Acala D(mm) 0·31 + 0·04 0·21 + 0·05 Some Aspects of the Behaviour of Crimp C x 100 (per cent) 6·8 ± 0·9 6·7 ± 0·7 of Cotton Fibres The difference between the mean values of the IN handling the fibres during ginning, baling and crimp diameters of the Deltapine and Acala fibres withdrawal from the cotton lots, different forces was found to be significant at a 1 per cent level of are applied to each fibre. These forces cause deform­ confidence. On the other hand, no difference was ations to the crimp of the fibre, and it seems TI - Crimp in Cotton: Some Aspects of the Behaviour of Crimp of Cotton Fibres JF - Nature DO - 10.1038/196153a0 DA - 1962-10-13 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/crimp-in-cotton-some-aspects-of-the-behaviour-of-crimp-of-cotton-6wx9Ydj4l7 SP - 153 EP - 154 VL - 196 IS - 4850 DP - DeepDyve ER -