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Clothing Unit Guide

This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered:
* The properties and structures of the fibres used to make clothing
* The care of fabrics
* Modification of the properties of fabrics.

Core contents
C1: What are our clothes made of?
C2: How can we identify different fabrics?
C3: How do we clean clothes?
C4: How do we dry clothes?
C5: Why do different fibres have different properties?

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