what are the chemicals mixed in natural cotton to make synthetic cotton

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Cotton is a natural polymer or fibre composed of mainly cellulose. Cellulose consists of glucose as it's monomer units.It can be mixed with synthetic fibre to produce textile products but it is not known as synthetic cotton.
Cotton consists of 80-95 % cellulose as the main component.

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