What are Natural and Synthetic Fibres Video Lecture - Advance Learner Course

the clothes we wear are made up of
fabrics fibers are of two types
natural fibers which are obtained from
natural resources like plants and
animals for example cotton linen jute
coir etc are obtained from plants wool
and silk are common fibers obtained from
animals synthetic fibers which are
man-made fibers for example rayon nylon
polyester and acrylic synthetic fibers
are made by the use of chemicals a
synthetic fiber is a chain of small
units joined together these units are
called monomers mono means single merle
means unit certain fibers are made of
many units join together to form a large
unit these are called polymers poly
means many mer means unit for example
cotton is made up of glucose and
cellulose monomers may combine into two
different ways to form a polymer linear
polymer like beads on a string and
cross-linked polymers like beads on a
net