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2. Clothing insulation - Wikipedia

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   Clothing insulation is the thermal insulation provided by clothing. [1] [2] Even if the main role of clothing is to protect from the cold, protective clothing also exists to protect from heat, such as for metallurgical workers or firemen. As regards thermal comfort, only the first case is considered.

3. Tog (unit) - Wikipedia

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   So that practical clothing may be described conveniently by a range of small integers, the unit of thermal resistance, to be called the “tog”, is the resistance that will maintain a temperature difference of 0.1°C. with a flux of 1 watt per square metre, or in more practical terms, 10°C. with a flux of 1 watt per square decimetre.

4. Extended Cold Weather Clothing System - Wikipedia

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   Generation III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System ECWCS levels 7 (left) and 5 (right). The Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS / ˈ ɛ k w æ k s /) is a protective clothing system developed in the 1980s by the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts.

5. PrimaLoft - Wikipedia

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   The yarn is 100% polyester or a blend of 45% polyester fibers and 55% merino wool, and is used in socks, sweaters, base layers, and accessories intended mainly for outdoor wear. [ 3 ] In 2010, PrimaLoft was the first maker of branded insulation to be recognized for compliance with the bluesign criteria for environmental effect. [ 4 ]

6. Polyethylene terephthalate - Wikipedia

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   Polyester fibres are widely used in the textile industry. The invention of the polyester fibre is attributed to J. R. Whinfield. [9] It was first commercialized in the 1940s by ICI, under the brand 'Terylene'. [10] Subsequently E. I. DuPont launched the brand 'Dacron'. As of 2022, there are many brands around the world, mostly Asian.

7. Polyester - Wikipedia

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   A polyester shirt Close-up of a polyester shirt SEM picture of a bend in a high-surface area polyester fiber with a seven-lobed cross section A drop of water on a water resistant polyester Polyesters can contain one ester linkage per repeat unit of the polymer, as in polyhydroxyalkanoates like polylactic acid , or they may have two ester ...