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A Cotton Gin—meaning "Cotton engine" [1] [2] —is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. [3] The separated seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil .
Cotton Gin Patent. It shows sawtooth gin blades, which were not part of Whitney's original patent. A cotton gin on display at the Eli Whitney Museum. The cotton gin is a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton, a process that had previously been extremely labor-intensive. The word gin is short for engine.
A "bale of cotton" is also the standard trading unit for cotton on the wholesale national and international markets. Although different cotton-growing countries have their bale standards, for example, In the United States, cotton is usually measured at approximately 0.48 cubic meters (17 cu ft) and weighs 226.8 kilograms (500 pounds). [6]
(candy floss) heated sugar spun into thin threads and collected into a mass, usually on a stick; something pleasing but having little worth (US: cotton candy for both senses) (v.) to sugarcoat, or boil with sugar (as fruit) to sweeten
For a decade and a half after 1865, the end of the Civil War, a number of innovative features became widely used for ginning in the United States.They included steam power instead of animal power, an automatic feeder to assure that the gin stand ran smoothly, a condenser to make the clean cotton coming out of the gin easier to handle, and indoor presses so that cotton no longer had to be ...
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The word Gin, like nearly every word in the English language, has more than one meaning. In reference to a cotton gin, it mean an engine, or machine. Gin the liquor is named as such because it is derived from juniper berries, which are called genevre in some languages, and that has transformed into the word gin in modern English.
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