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ON February 5, at the Royal Society of Arts, Mr. Ed. C. de Segundo read a very interesting and suggestive paper on “The Removal of the Residual Fibres from Cotton-seed and their Value for Non-textile Purposes.” Mr. de Segundo explained that there are two main classes of cotton-seed, viz. the bald, black, or clean seeds, such as Egyptian, Sea Island, Brazilian, etc., of which practically the whole “lint” is removed by the process of “ginning,” or separating the lint or textile fibre from the seed; and the white, woolly, or fuzzy seeds such as American, which are still covered with a short white “fuzz” or lint after ginning. Indian cotton-seed is really of the latter class, though the fuzz remaining on the seed is much shorter than in the case of the American.
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Cotton-Seed By-Products . Nature 103, 153–154 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103153a0
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