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A SHORT well-defined streak at right angles to the direction of the fibre axis is seen on both sides of the lead beam-trap on X-ray photographs of natural cellulosic fibres taken under suitable conditions. Kratky1 and Kratky and Porod2 consider that this low-angle X-ray scattering can be attributed to the close-packing of crystallites, and this hypothesis is corroborated by work of Heyn3,4. In the course of a study of the structure of jute and other fibres, I have repeated some of Heyn's experiments, and have also examined the effect produced by removal of lignin upon the intermicellar swelling of jute fibre in water.
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ADAM, J. Low-Angle X-Ray Scattering from Ramie and Jute. Nature 167, 78 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167078a0
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