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Textile and Fiber Materials

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Textile and fiber materials questions cover the properties, sources, and applications of natural and synthetic fabrics. Topics include moisture wicking sportswear, plant fibers, and natural dyes. This subject appears in general science sections of various competitive exams and requires practical material knowledge.

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Textile and Fiber Materials Questions

Multiple choice chemistry fibre to fabric: plant fibre classification of fibres fibres history of fabric
Fibre is a thread or filament from which cloth is made.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Fibre is a long and thin strand or thread from which cloth is made. 

Cloth is prepared by weaving/knitting of this thread together. Fibre can be natural or man-made. 

Natural fibres include cotton, hair, fur, silk, wool and man fibre include nylon, polyester, olefin etc.
Multiple choice chemistry fibre to fabric: plant fibre classification of fibres fibres history of fabric

Natural fibres are obtained from plants and animals whereas synthetic fibres are obtained by chemical processing of petrochemicals.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Natural fibres are hairlike raw material directly obtainable from an animal, vegetable, or mineral source and convertible into non woven fabrics such as felt or paper or, after spinning into yarns, into woven cloth. A natural fiber may be further defined as an agglomeration of cells in which the diameter is negligible in comparison with the length examples: cellulose types such as cotton, wood, grains, and straw.
Synthetic fibers are fibers are human-made by chemical synthesis, as opposed to natural fibers. In general, synthetic fibers are created by extruding fiber-forming materials through spinnerets into air and water, forming a thread. These fibers are called synthetic or artificial fibers. Some fibers (such as the diverse family of rayons) are manufactured from plant-derived cellulose and are thus semi-synthetic, whereas others are totally synthetic, being made from crudes and intermediates including petroleum, coal, limestone, air, and water.
therefore option A is correct

Multiple choice chemistry fibre to fabric: plant fibre classification of fibres fibres history of fabric

State whether true or false :

Synthetic fibres are also called as artificial or human made fibres.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Synthetic fibers are prepared by using chemicals. These are made of small units that join together to form long chains. 


Some of the examples of synthetic fibers are nylon, rayon, acrylic, polyester.
They are also called artificial or man-made or human-made fiber.

Hence, option $A$ is correct.

Multiple choice organisation of commerce and management trade trade and factors affecting trade trading and economic organisations trade and trade organisations

Which out of these is produced by China?

  1. Watches

  2. Silk fabrics

  3. Computers

  4. Cotton fabrics
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
  • China is the world's largest silk producer. 
  • The vast majority of Chinese silk originates from the mulberry silkworms.
  • More than ten million farmers in China raise silk and nearly half a million people are employed in silk-fabric production. 
Multiple choice geography production in a factory - a paper mill production in a paper mill information technology industry automobile and electronic industries

Sindri manufactured ________.

  1. Silk

  2. Paper

  3. Steel

  4. Fertilizers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Sindri is an industrial township within the Dhanbad municipal limits of the Dhanbad District of Jharkhand state. Sindri was well known because of a large Fertilizer factory (Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited - FCI, closed in 2002) conceived here in the early industrialized India.

Multiple choice social science production in a factory - a paper mill production in a paper mill information technology industry automobile and electronic industries

Which is the raw material required in paper production?

  1. Bamboo

  2. Eucalyptus

  3. Subabul tree

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Bamboo,Eucalyptus and Subabul tree are used for the paper production.
The remaining material comes from wood fiber from sawmills, recycled newspaper, some vegetable matter, and recycled cloth. Coniferous trees, such as spruce and fir, used to be preferred for papermaking because the cellulose fibers in the pulp of these species are longer, therefore making for stronger paper.

Multiple choice

skirt : legs :: shawl :

  1. shoulders

  2. knees

  3. feet

  4. waist
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This is a body part-clothing analogy: a skirt covers the legs, and a shawl covers the shoulders.

Multiple choice development of industrial sector and major industries in karnataka industries of karnataka geography

Mysore industrial center is related to the production of which fiber among the following?

  1. Wool

  2. Cotton

  3. Silk

  4. Jute

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Karnataka produces 9,000 metric tons of mulberry silk of a total of 20,000 metric tons of mulberry silk produced in the country, thus contributing to nearly 45% of the country's total mulberry silk. In Karnataka, silk is mainly produced in the Mysore district. It is a patent registered product under KSIC.

Multiple choice botany plants in daily life types of wood importance of plants secondary growth in stem

Which one is an example of wood fibres?

  1. Hemp

  2. Flax

  3. Cotton

  4. Zingiber.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Fibre is a narrow, elongated cell with thick lignified wall and narrow lumen tapering to a wedge-shape at both ends. Sometimes the deposition of lignin is so thick as to obliterate the central lumen. The fibres appear more or less angular in cross-sectional view with little intercellular spaces. The cell wall is pitted and may show slight indentation (ex. Zingiber).

So, the correct answer is 'Zingiber.'

Multiple choice biology multicellular structure: tissue defense mechanism in plants epidermal tissue system kinds of plant tissue permanent tissues and their types

The cotton fibres are 

  1. Fibres taken out from stem

  2. Epidermal hairs of seed

  3. Epidermal hairs of fruits

  4. Fibres taken out from roots
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Cotton, seed hair fibre of a variety of plants of the genus Gossypium, belonging to the hibiscus, or mallow family (Malvaceae) and native to most subtropical parts of the world. Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fibre that grows in a boll or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the family of Malvaceae.
The fibre is almost pure cellulose. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will tend to increase the dispersion of the seeds. The epidermis cells is a single-layered group of cells that covers plants leaves, flowers, roots and stems. It forms a boundary between the plant and the external environment. Cotton fibres are collected from epidermal layer of seeds. So, cotton fibres are epidermal hairs of seed and not epidermal hairs of fruits, fibres taken out from roots or fibres taken out from the stem. 
Thus, the correct answer is option B.