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Definition of Mercerising
1. mercerise [v] - See also: mercerise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercerising
Literary usage of Mercerising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dyeing Industry by Sydney Herbert Higgins (1919)
"mercerising is a process of treating cotton with concentrated caustic-soda ...
Experience has shown that for all classes of mercerising, caustic soda of ..."
2. The Structure of the Cotton Fibre in Its Relation to Technical Applications by Frederic Hungerford Bowman (1908)
"... on the contrary, they are rather strengthened, and the cause is probably the
same as in the mercerising process— that hydrolysis has taken place the ..."
3. A Text-book on Trade Waste Waters: Their Nature and Disposal by H. Maclean Wilson, Harry Thornton Calvert (1913)
"... system—Indigo dyeing—Sulphide black dyeing—Summary—Printing—Stiffening and
loading—Carbonising,and stripping — mercerising. Dyeing. ..."
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