Cotton wool
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Description
1) A wad or roll of absorbent Cotton used for padding, binding, and as an absorbent.
2) A boll of unprocessed cotton fibers.
Synonyms and Related Terms
cotton batting; absorbent cotton; bambagia; cotton roll; rolled cotton; guata, algodón en rama(Esp.); watten;ruwe katoen, katoenpluis (Ned);
Resources and Citations
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 296
- Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
- Marie Svoboda, Conservation Survey Index, unpublished, 1997
- Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
- Conservation termlist at www.hants.org.uk/museums