What's the difference between polyester fiber and cotton?
Polyester is synthetic, cotton is pure natural.
Cotton, cotton fiber is a seed Malvaceae genus, native to subtropical. Plants shrubby, cultivated in tropical regions, grow to 6 meters tall, usually 1 to 2 meters. The flowers are creamy white and soon turn red after flowering, then fade and leave a small green capsule called cotton boll. In the cotton boll cottonseed, cottonseed hairs grow from the seed epidermis, with cotton boll, mature split, with soft fiber. Fiber white or whitish yellow, ca. 2 to 4 cm, containing about 87 - 90% cellulose. The countries with the highest cotton output are China, the United States, India and so on.
Polyester fiber is an important variety of synthetic fiber, and it is the commodity name of polyester fiber in our country. It is a pure terephthalic acid (PTA) or terephthalic acid methyl ester two (DMT) and ethylene glycol (EG) as a fiber polymer, polyethylene terephthalate as raw materials by esterification or transesterification and polycondensation prepared (PET), the spinning and postprocessing fibers.
