Talk:Dead cotton

A fact from Dead cotton appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that dead cotton is immature or underdeveloped cotton that has poor dye affinity and appears as white specks on a dyed fabric?

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 21:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that dead cotton is immature or underdeveloped cotton that has poor dye affinity and appears as white specks on a dyed fabric? Source: https://archive.org/details/oncottonfibreonm00crum/page/10/mode/2up
ALT1...that there is some amount of dead cotton in every cotton lot? Source: https://archive.org/details/principlesofdyei00frap/page/57/mode/2up

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Stray cow

Created by RAJIVVASUDEV (talk). Self-nominated at 09:05, 2 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting topic. New and long enough, within policy, Earwig finds no copyvios, QPQ minimal but ok. Both hooks check out, original is more interesting. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 02:51, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]