Question 16

Once, Paheli visited a tailor shop and brought home some cuttings of fabric to study their properties. She took two pieces and found that one of the pieces was shrinking when it was burnt with a candle. However, the other did not shrink on burning. Can you help her to find out which of the two was a cotton fabric and which was a silk fabric?

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Solution

If a piece of cloth shrinks on burning, then the fabric is silk and the other fabric is cotton because cotton fabric does not shrinks on burning.

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