Rayon fibre

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.... was originally known by such terms as artificial silk and wood silk, but in 1924 it was given the coined name rayon. Anitrocellulose type, first produced commercially in France in 1891 in the form of a nitrocellulose fibre, it was later discontinued because of its high flammability. Rayon is described as a re-generated fibre because the cellulose is converted to a liquid compound and then back to....