Bast fibers, such as ramie, hemp, flax and kenaf, are natural fibers with high specific stiffness strength that have gained increasing attention in recent years. advantageous terms of their biodegradability abundance nature, making them promising candidates for automotive industry, structural composites, pulping textile applications etc. There is a strong desire from industry yielding cellulose...

The precise identification of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) fiber in ancient papers is great significance the study paper history. However, different species phloem fibers belonging to bast (e.g., hemp, ramie, flax, jute) used traditional hand papermaking East Asian region present similar microscopic morphological traits, which renders their accurate problematic and may cause controversy archaeolog...

The aim of research was to observe and describe biodestructions fabrics that usually used inside a home, estimate the destruction (total number “N” index “K”). samples were placed into thermostat in sterile Petri dishes on moistened filter paper order stimulate microflora occurred fibers. Incubation carried out at +24-28 °C, humidity 90-100% exposed for 8 month. examined with microscope. As res...

Abstract For the last couple of decades, researchers have been trying to explore eco-friendly materials which would significantly reduce dependency on synthetic fibers and their composites. Natural fiber-based composites possess several excellent properties. They are biodegradable, non-abrasive, low cost, lower density, led growing interest in using these industrial applications. However, prope...

The development of environmental friendly engineering material has received top priority recently. Glass fiber (GF) reinforced polypropylene (PP) composites is one of the most widely used materials in the automotive industry due to its favourable properties. However, the presence of GF has become a major issue in the recycling of GF/PP composites. Considerable efforts have been devoted to find ...

In Rigveda Soma is an evergreen plant, with thousand stalks yellow hued bestowing auspicious energy. Resembling yellow fibres of hemp ephedra was rained in Chlnoso Ho-Ma, Yellow-hemp. It was Sanskritized as Soma. Being an energizer-cum-euphoriant its juice was consumed thrice daily. Finally it became a drug of longevity, rejuvenation and resurrection even god Soma. As drug it was substituted by...

There is a special form of mental disease met with in India usually classed as Toxic Insanity which seems to have a direct relation to the excessive use of hemp drugs in any form. It has a definite train of sj'mptoms of a fairly uniform character; there is in the large majority of those affected no hereditary history of insanity, nervous disease or tubercle; the sufferers are men of every age (...