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THIS is an interesting account of “artificial silk” or “lustra cellulose,” an industry which has now assumed serious proportions; in fact, the present production of these new textile threads may be estimated at not less than six tons per day, chiefly manufactured in France, Germany, and Belgium. In the preface it is stated that a Societá Italiana della Seta Artificiale in Pavia is the first organisation to undertake developments in Italy. The technology of the industry is briefly outlined in six chapters (pp. 230), attention being chiefly directed to the systems based upon the spinning of collodion (nitrocellulose). The alternative systems, based upon the Cuprammonium and “Viscose” solutions of cellulose, are also described.
Seta Artificiale.
By G. B. Baccioni. Pp. 231. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.) Price L3.50.
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Seta Artificiale . Nature 73, 606 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073606b0
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