Fibers

Question: What are the best fibers for baby blankets? What are the best fibers for knitting or crocheting a baby blanket? Acrylic, wool, blends?

Answer: Acrylic IS easy to care for and inexpensive but does pose a fire hazard. Natural fibers are softest for baby skin - cotton, wool ... or for the more extravagant, how about a silk-cashmere blend? Or for slightly less 'splurge', a bamboo/ cotton blend? They feel divinely soft!

Question: What is the difference between optical fibers and standard cable? i have to compare optical fibers with standard cable.

Answer: simple answer. optical fibers are hair thin strands of glass that transmit information using lasers. standard cable is copper -cored wire that transmits information using electrical impulses

Question: How long after refacing cement (with fibers) drys is it acceptable to prime or use drylock? I finished refacing brick in my basement around 5PM yesterday. Again, it was refacing type with the fibers build in for reinforcement. Thanks!

Answer: i would say about 3 days since that is cement family ( the cement with the fiber?) but i would recommended wait 48 hour to prime or drylock.

Question: What's the difference between pomades, fibers, holding cremes etc.? What's the difference between American Crew pomades, fibers, holding cremes etc.? They're all in a little container and used to style your hair, and the descriptions on their site are very similar. Can anyone tell me the differences?

Answer: Price. Overall, they're pretty much the same.

Question: What fibers are commonly used in winter clothing? what type of fibers are used in winter clothing? such as a windcheater usually have cotton because its lightweight and breathable but still warm.

Answer: The earliest were probably animal skins and furs. Bird feathers are often used, with down considered the finest. Wool, if not over-treated, retains excellent insulating and water-repelling properties. Cotton is cheap, and has fairly good insulating properties if it's thick enough and not overly compressed. Flannel is a good choice for shirts, corduroy or denim for pants. Nowadays, fashion trumps practicality, so anything goes.

Question: What is the functions of the spindle fibers in early anaphase? I'm doing a cell model project in biology. I need some help , all those big words just don't sound like me. I need to list all the different cells and their functions which undergo early anaphase. I already have down the purpose of the chromatids, Im just not so clear about the spindle fibers. Do they just seperate the chromosomes? Thanks!

Answer: pretty much. they attach to the kinetochores (centers) of the sisters chromosomes and pull them to opposite sides of the cell.

Question: What are the little fibers at the paper slots in printers for? Printers and copy-machines I work with seem to have small fibers where either the paper enters or where it exits. What is the purpose of these little fibers?

Answer: Static discharge. So that static electricity does not keep the paper sticking together and pull more than one sheet through at a time.

Question: How many fibers in white bread and banana? I've got an assignment in school and have to find out how many fibers banana and ordinary white bread contains.

Answer: .I assume you mean grams of fiber. For white bread that should be included in the nutritional information on the bread packaging. Take a look at your bread bag. If you don't have any bread, you can look up nutritional information at calorieking.com or calorielab.com. You can also find info there on bananas. Good luck!

Question: How do I make my scarf stop shedding fibers? I just bought a cute scarf (it's made from acrylic wool) but when I take it off I have acrylic fibers all over my top. What can I do to stop this? Will washing the scarf fix the problem?

Answer: I have the same problem with one of my towels, it's just absolutely annoying, I'm hoping someone could me out oo

Question: How do you get new carpet fibers out of your hair? We recently moved into a newly built home. I have two daughters and they play on the floor of course. They both get these carpet fibers stuck in their hair. It is like ridiculous how badly it tangles up their hair. Does anyone know how to get the fibers out or to prevent them from getting stuck in the hair in the first place? Thanks

Answer: Vacuum your floors daily & brush the fibers out of their hair frequently.:)

Question: What is the name of the condition where celery fibers collect in the stomach? What is the name of the condition in which undigested celery fibers are not passed through the stomach and collect to form celery wire balls? I swear I've heard of it and haven't been able to find any references describing the condition.

Answer: Gastroparesis is when the stomach is slow to empty, so that isn't what is being referred to here. The ball in the stomach would be a bezoar. Bezoars can be made up of hair or other non-food items. I've never heard of celery causing this, but I guess if you eat enough of it, it could happen.

Question: Hey guys I keep seeing the ad for hair fibers md for thinning hair and balding spots. How is it? I have tried other hair fiber products on the market. Hair Fibers md looks great in the pictures. I want to know if anyone ahas heard of such hair building fibers?

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Question: Is it normal for carpet fibers to come up this long? Our landlord put new carpet in our apartment a few months ago. He told us to vacuum at least once a week and the carpet fibers should stop coming up within a month. We have vacuumed probably 20 times and the fibers are still coming up. Is this normal? Is there any way to get the fibers to finally stop coming up? It's really annoying to have to clean out our vacuum so often (changing the bag and removing excess carpet fibers from the roller brush) and it makes it hard to move any furniture around.

Answer: I've never heard of it being quite that bad. Maybe contact your landlord about it, but it should stop soon. I have not had that problem with new carpet.

Question: What generalizations can you make about the properties of natural fibers? Are there some properties which they all have in common? If so, what are they? What generalizations can you make about synthetic fibers?

Answer: Wool is itchy. Silk is smooth. Cotton shrinks. All man-made fabrics are kind of suffocating by themselves. By suffocating, I mean that they don't seem to let my skin "breath" if that makes sense.

Question: Can muscle fibers types vary in different parts of the body? Suppose I run Cross Country. In that situation, I would have slow twitch muscle fibers in my legs. If I weight lift, can I have fast twitch muscle fibers in my arms and slow twitch in my legs or is that impossible?

Answer: Skeletal muscle fibers do vary in different parts of the body, since they all serve different functions.

Question: What general term can be given to peripheral nerve fibers that are processes of neurons located in the ventral? gray column of the spinal cord? Q2 What other types of efferent fibers are found in peripheral nerves in addition to the efferent fibers to skeletal muscle?

Answer: Q1 - these are motor neurons Q2 - In addition to the general somatic efferent fibers to skeletal muscle, there are general visceral efferent fibers that carry impulses to smooth muscle and glands (sweat and sebaceous glands, arrector pili muscle, etc.)