Word: chardonnet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invented forty years ago by a French nobleman, Count de Chardonnet. Practically any cellulose substance can be transformed into it,-cotton linters (tiny shreds of cotton fibre formerly wasted), wood pulp, corn stalks, straw...
Rayon was invented some forty years ago by a Frenchman, the Count de Chardonnet, who manufactured a lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...
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