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- MATTER- living and non-living things
- Non-living things: pure and mixtures.
- Pure: elements and compounds;
- Elements: metals ,gold,silver copper aluminium
- Non-metals: oxygen hydrogen,carbon
- Metalloids:
| NUMBER | SYMBOL | ELEMENT |
| 5 | B | Boron |
| 14 | Si | Silicon |
| 32 | Ge | Germanium |
| 33 | As | Arsenic |
| 51 | Sb | Antimony |
| 52 | Te | Tellurium |
| 84 | Po | Polonium |
- Inert gases: helium,neon, argon
- Mixtures: Homogeneous, Heterogeneous
- Substance:Pure: made up of only one kind of molecule
- Mixtures: Combination of two or more elements separated out by physical techniques -filteration
- compounds-formed from two or more elements chemically united in fixed proportion-water -H2O
- Metal: elements,malleable, ductile,sonorous -good conductors of heat and electricity.Iron
- Alloys: Homogeneous mixtures of two or more metals or non-metals to improve properties- steel-iron + carbon.
- Components distributed evenly-Homogeneous mixture- salt solution
- Two or more unevenly mixed components- Heterogeneous mixtures- sand and water, sandwich
- Simple substance made up of only one kind of atoms-cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical methods.ELEMENTS.
- Fibre:Loose thinner strands of a thread.
- Natural fibres: got from plants and animals.
- Synthetic/artificial fibres: obtained from chemical substances or man made chemical.
- Fabric: Materials made by knitting or weaving , natural or artificial fibres for making curtains, clothes. etc.,
- Yarn: thread spun for making clothes,
- Ginning: sorting out seeds from cotton fibres.
- Spinning:process of twisting the fibres to make thread.
- Weaving: process of interlacing two or various sets of threads to form cloth or fabric.
- Loom: machine used for weaving cloth.
- Knitting: process of converting the single thread or yarn into cloth.
- Cotton bolls: Cotton flowers containing seeds and fibre.
- Carding: Raw cotton pulled apart and cleaned for removing dust and impurities.
- Combing; Cleaned cotton fibres .straightened and making into soft untwisted strands .
- Handloom: Hand operated machine for weaving.
- Wool: soft fine hair covering the body of the goat,sheep or other animals.
- Silk: soft thread produced by silk worms.
- Silkworm: Larve or caterpillar of silk moth (Bomby xMori )producing silk thread.
- Cocoon: Outer covering of silk thread of the silkworm spins around itself for protection to become the insect.
- Jute: fibre from Patsun used for making rope, sacks and coarse cloth.
- Fleece: Woollen coat of a sheep or goat removed by Shearing.
- Shearing: Cutting the wool of the sheep using special clipper.
- Sericulture: Raising of silkworms for production of raw silk.
- Rettig: Separation of fibres from stem (Jute) using bacterial action and moisture on plants.
- Cotton gins: machine with roller fitted for separating seeds from other fibres.
- Takli: thin pointed piece of wood used for spinning fibres into threads using hand.
- Charka: simple machine for spinning fibres having a large wheel operated with hand or feet.
- Jute: sacks.bags, wall hangings jewellery wrappings.
- Uses of cotton: cotton fabric, clothes, pillows and quilts( as fillers) Surgical bandages.
- Spinning: Takli(Hand spindle)
- Charka: Spinning wheel
- Industrial spinning machine
- Plant fibres: Coir- ropes,mats
- Flax- paper.linen
- Hemp- nets, carpets,ropes, clothes
- cotton- mattress, clothes,pillows.
- Silk- clothes socks sacks
- Fabric from cotton:
- cotton bolls- ginning- cotton fibres- seeds- spinning- yarn- knitting- weaving- fabric.
- Weaving: handloom.powerloom.