Explore how glue and cotton combine to create a powerful solution for fixing everyday items. From creative hacks to ...

Wool, wood, cotton, cocoons, coal, and petroleum are natural resources used to make fabrics. The reason each of these very different things can become fabric is that they all share a common chemistry.

So even though the cotton and polyester were in the dye bath for the same amount of time, the dye stuck only a little bit. This is why the polyester fiber you soaked in the dye is lighter or duller in ...

"You could sit down and your shirt would rip across the back," Noelie Bertoniere, who studied the chemistry of cotton in the 20th century and co-authored the book "Cotton Fiber Chemistry and ...