Plants, People ... and the World » Plants and People http://dev.rgeeta.in Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:48:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Plants and People — random stuff http://dev.rgeeta.in/index.php/2015/07/12/palms-some-links/ http://dev.rgeeta.in/index.php/2015/07/12/palms-some-links/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:49:45 +0000 http://dev.rgeeta.in/?p=85 Continue reading →]]> Sugar and …
Sugar in history
The refining process: one account and another

… Spice and …
Everything you wanted to know about spices

…other things nice

Palms
Palms and humans
South Asian palms
Palm-leaf documents

Rayon (much modified from wood fibre)
Could it be an  alternative to cotton, that oh-so-comfortable-but-most-polluting-and-worse fibre crop?

Grasim, an Aditya Birla enterprise, produces a large fraction (24%?) of the world’s production of rayon. The process of converting wood pulp into Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) uses caustic soda in large quantities.

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