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  2. Fuller's earth - Wikipedia

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    The English name reflects the historical use of the material for fulling (cleaning and shrinking) wool, by textile workers known as fullers. [1] [2] [3] In past centuries, fullers kneaded fuller's earth and water into woollen cloth to absorb lanolin, oils, and other greasy impurities as part of the cloth finishing process.

  3. Perlite - Wikipedia

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    Considering specific density of 1.1 ton/m 3 confirmed reserves in Armenia amount to 165 million tons. Other reported reserves are: Greece - 120 million tonnes, Turkey, USA and Hungary - about 49-57 million tonnes. [6] [7] Perlite world production, led by China, Turkey, Greece, USA, Armenia and Hungary, summed up to 4.6 million tonnes in 2018 ...

  4. Mineral wool - Wikipedia

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    Mineral wool is any fibrous material formed by spinning or drawing molten mineral or rock materials such as slag and ceramics. [1] Applications of mineral wool include thermal insulation (as both structural insulation and pipe insulation), filtration, soundproofing, and hydroponic growth medium.

  5. Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable - Wikipedia

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    Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable is a variety of electrical cable made from copper conductors inside a copper sheath, insulated by inorganic magnesium oxide powder. The name is often abbreviated to MICC or MI cable, and colloquially known as pyro (because the original manufacturer and vendor for this product in the UK was a company called ...

  6. Ethylene propylene rubber - Wikipedia

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    EPM has a large number of uses due to the many ways in which the polymer can be designed, for example; it is used in automotive weather-stripping and seals, self-amalgamating tape, glass run channels, radiators, garden and appliance hoses, tubing, belts, roofing membranes, expansion joints, rubber mechanical goods, plastic impact modification, thermoplastic vulcanisates and motor oil additive ...

  7. List of textile fibres - Wikipedia

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    Textile fibres or textile fibers (see spelling differences) can be created from many natural sources (animal hair or fur, cocoons as with silk worm cocoons), as well as semisynthetic methods that use naturally occurring polymers, and synthetic methods that use polymer-based materials, and even minerals such as metals to make foils and wires.

  8. Fabric softener - Wikipedia

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    Fabric softener reduces the absorbency of textiles, which adversely affects the function of towels and microfiber cloth. [ 7 ] [ failed verification ] Formerly, the active material of most softeners in Europe, the United States, and Japan, was distearyldimethylammonium chloride (DSDMAC) or related quat salts.

  9. Electroplating - Wikipedia

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    The brush, typically a graphite body wrapped with an absorbent cloth material that both holds the plating solution and prevents direct contact with the item being plated, is connected to the anode of a low-voltage and 3-4 ampere direct-current power source, and the item to be plated (the cathode) is grounded. The operator dips the brush in ...