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Absorbency - ✔✔ability to take up moisture from the body or environment
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Hydrophilic - ✔✔absorb moisture; love water, absorb, comfortable
Def.
Hydrophobic - ✔✔little to no absorbency
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Olephilic - ✔✔strongly attracted to oils
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Electrical Conductivity - ✔✔ability to transfer electrical charges
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Wicking - ✔✔ability to transfer moisture across surface; the result is cooler, dries faster, and
comfortable
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Heat retention - ✔✔ability to hold onto heat
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,Heat conductivity - ✔✔the ability to transfer heat through a fabric
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Heat sensitivity - ✔✔describes a fiber's reaction to heat
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Flammability - ✔✔describes how a fabric reacts to ignition sources
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Density - ✔✔measure of fiber weight relative to an equal volume of water
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Resiliency - ✔✔ability to return to original shape after twisting and crushing, ability to resist
wrinkle; ex. smooth, wool has good resiliency
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Loft - ✔✔ability to spring back to the original thickness after being compressed or crushed
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Dimensional stability - ✔✔ability to retain original size and shape, ability to maintain size
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Shrinkage resistance - ✔✔ability of a fabric to retain its original dimensions during cleaning
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Elastic recovery - ✔✔the ability of a textile to return to its original dimension or shape after
elongation or stretching
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Aging resistance - ✔✔resistance to harmful charges over time
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Mildew resistance - ✔✔resistance to the growth of mildew, mold, or fungus
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Insect resistance - ✔✔resistance to insect damage
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Chemical reactivity - ✔✔describes the affect that acids, alkalis, oxidizing agents, solvents,
and other chemicals
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Light resistance - ✔✔the ability to withstand degradation from natural or artificial light
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Staple fibers - ✔✔short fibers measured in inches or centimeters
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Filament fibers - ✔✔long continuous fiber strands measured in miles or kilometers
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Monofilament fibers - ✔✔one filament
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