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Fibroin  
DEFINITION
  • n. Used as a combined form of fibre, and a suffix "in". It is a chemical substance, one of the two basic constituents of raw silk. It represents about the 75% of the weight, due to the other part, the gum sericin is lost after the boiling process. Fibroin is, therefore, the actual fibre.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. vocabulario Técnico Tejidos Español, francés, inglés, italiano. Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1963; «Real Academia Española». Accedido 20 de noviembre de 2018. http://www.rae.es/; Casa Aruta, Francisco. Diccionario de la industria textil. Barcelona: Labor, 1969
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Fibroïne

French

Fibroina

Italian

Fibroína

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/24
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