Abstract
JUTE is distinguished from most other plant fibres by the occurrence in it of a high proportion of noncellulosic materials. Normal jute contains roughly 64 per cent of cellulose, the remainder of the fibresubstance comprising lignin (15 per cent) and hemicelluloses, xylan (11 per cent) and polyuronides (9 per cent) ; in contrast, ramie is almost pure cellulose. We have studied the effect of these non-cellulosic constituents on some of the structural features of the fibre as revealed by X-rays.
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SEN, M., WOODS, H. X-Ray Investigation of the Structure of Jute. Nature 161, 768 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161768a0
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