The most interesting part of the fabric lab to me was the fact that all of the synthetic fabrics melted during the fire test. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I never thought about it before this lab, but that proves that all of the synthetic materials we tested were formed from some type of plastic. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know what I thought they were made out of before, but now I really think about what I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m wearing based on whether it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s natural or synthetic. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Determining whether the fabrics were knitted or woven proved to be easier than I originally thought. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Nylon and rayon were knitted and both are synthetic. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Cotton, wool, and Polyester were woven, and cotton and wool are natural while polyester is synthetic. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The most difficult\/confusing part of this lab was the whole section about the filament numbers. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0There was not a clear explanation as to what that specifically meant, so when the chart had a section for filament count I was not sure what to write down. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Another thing I found interesting was that the natural fabrics held more water than the synthetic fabrics. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Perhaps this is because the natural fabrics are made of more coarse fibers, therefore, they can hold more water. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Lastly, this was kind of a pain, but it was cool to observe, the H2SO4 broke down the nylon. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The nylon practically disintegrated in the test and it was very difficult to remove the fabric from the container it was in. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I found this interesting because I would expect this solution to break apart all of the plastic-based fabrics (all of the synthetic ones), but it only broke down the nylon. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I think this is because the nylon has the most porous design, since the sample we used was from a pennie worn during a gym class. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0This breathable aspect caused there to be more holes than any other fabric, which I believe caused the nylon to break down more easily.<\/p>\n
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The most interesting part of the fabric lab to me was the fact that all of the synthetic fabrics melted during the fire test. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I never thought about it before this lab, but that proves that all of the synthetic materials we tested were formed from some type of plastic. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know what I … Continue reading Fabric Lab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,14,8],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forensics","tag-s1lg3","tag-s3","tag-s4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.gdrsd.org\/andreaw2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}