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ONE of several general methods of making wool unshrinkable depends for its success on disulphide-bond breakdown in the surface of the fibres. A solution of sulphuryl chloride in white spirit is sometimes used for this purpose1; but it has now been found that treatment which is effective with commercial fabric is relatively ineffective when the latter is freed from adsorbed soap and residual oil by extraction with alcohol and ether.
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Hall, Hicking and Pentecost, British Patent No. 464, 503. Speakman, Nilssen and Elliott, Nature, 142, 1035 (1938). Elliott and Speakman, J. Chem. Soc, 641 (1940).
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FARNWORTH, A., SPEAKMAN, J. Action of Sulphuryl Chloride on Wool. Nature 161, 850–851 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161850b0
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