{"id":6603,"date":"2023-01-12T04:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T23:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:21:41","slug":"viscose-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/viscose-fibre\/","title":{"rendered":"Viscose Fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Viscose Fibre<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Viscose is a <strong>type of rayon<\/strong>. Originally known as artificial silk, in the late 19th century, the term \u201crayon\u201d came into effect in 1924.<\/li>\n<li>The name \u201cviscose\u201d is derived from the way this fibre is manufactured; a viscous organic liquid used to make both rayon and cellophane.<\/li>\n<li>Viscose is made from <strong>tree wood pulp<\/strong>, like beech, pine, and eucalyptus, but can also be made from bamboo.<\/li>\n<li>As a manufactured regenerated cellulose fibre, it is neither truly natural (like cotton, wool or silk) nor truly synthetic (like nylon or polyester) \u2013 it falls somewhere in between.<\/li>\n<li>Chemically, viscose resembles cotton, but it can also take on many different qualities depending on how it is manufactured.<\/li>\n<li>It is versatile, Highly absorbent and Inexpensive fibre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Cellulose?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, found in trees, waste from agricultural crops and other biomass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/levy-anti-dumping-duty-on-viscose-fibre\/article66365850.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Levy anti-dumping duty on viscose fibre.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viscose is a type of rayon which is made from tree wood pulp but can also be made from bamboo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}