Exercises
1. (a) What do you understand by
(i) Retting
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retting means to soak in water or expose to moisture as flax to removal of finer from woody tissue by rotting process.
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Retting is a process employing the action of micro-organisms and moisture on plants to dissolve or rot away much of the cellular tissues and pectins surrounding bast-fibre bundles, and so facilitating separation of the fibre from the stem.