Assertion: cotton's fiber | /r/CapableOf | shrink around one another
Facets:
value: as the bonding technique
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: A more expensive route uses binder fibers or powders that soften and melt to hold other non-melting fibers together one type of cotton staple nonwoven is treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink bond the mat, the caustic causes the cellulose-based fibers to curl and shrink around one another as the bonding technique one unusual polyamide(Cerex) is self-bonded with gas-phase acid