Cotton wool

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Rolled cotton

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, algodn en rama(Esp.); watten;ruwe katoen, katoenpluis (Ned);

Authority

  • G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 296
  • Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, 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  • Marie Svoboda, Marie Svoboda, Conservation Survey Index, unpublished, 1997
  • Random House, Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
  • Website address 1, Website address 1 Comment: conservation termlist at www.hants.org.uk/museums

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