EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Plants used for clothing include hemp, cotton, ramie, and flax. These types of plants produce fibrous materials. Fibers are long thin hairlike structures created from different parts of the plant, depending on the species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotton is just one plant that is used to make clothes. Let’s take a look at plants we wear. Cotton bolls open up when the cotton is ready to be picked. A cotton plant grows flowers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most commonly used plants for making clothing comes from hemp, ramie, cotton, and flax.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cotton is the world’s most widely used natural fibre and still the undisputed “king” of the global textiles industry. Flax: Like cotton, flax fibre is a cellulose polymer, but its structure is more crystalline, making it stronger, crisper and stiffer to handle, and more easily wrinkled.

Detailed explanation-5: -Products derived from plants include soaps, shampoos, perfumes, cosmetics, paint, varnish, turpentine, rubber, latex, lubricants, linoleum, plastics, inks, and gums. Renewable fuels from plants include firewood, peat and other biofuels.