How do silk 🐛spin cocoons to make silk

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Extracting raw silk starts by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves. Once the worms start pupating in theircocoons, these are dissolved in boiling water in order for individual long fibres to be extracted and fed into thespinning reel.

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Reeling of silk is
(a) a process of making silk reels
(b) the spinning of silk fibres
(c) the weaving of silk cloth
(d) the process of taking silk threads from a cocoon

Q. Why are cocoons boiled during the production of silk?

Q. The process of taking out threads from the cocoons, to obtain silk fibres is called ________.

Q. Hot water helps in separating out the silk fibres from cocoons.

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