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What Is Mercerizing
What Is Mercerizing
Before After
2.To improve the strength
3. To improve the dye uptake and moisture
regain.
Changes during mercerizing process
Molecular level
Fiber level
Changes during mercerizing process
Fiber level
• 1.Swelling
• 2.Cross sectional morphology changes from
beam shape to round shape.
• 3.Shrinkage along with longitudinal direction.
Changes during mercerizing process-Molecular level