Morphological Structure Of Jute Fiber
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| Morphological Structure Of Jute Fiber |
Jute fiber is a multicellular fiber. It is formed as a cylindrical sheath made with single fibers joined together by three-dimensional network from top to bottom of the steam.
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| Morphological Structure Of Jute Fiber |
1 . Macro structure: Each fiber element visible by naked eye, of a raw Jute reed available commercially is basically a group of about 5-15 ultimate cells, cemented together laterally and longitudinally by means of inter cellular materials being chiefly non-cellulosic in composition. Thus Jute fiber is multicellular. For this, Jute fiber is much coarser than Cotton which is unicellular.
The ultimate cells are spindle shaped and of variable size in length and width, being on an average 2.5 mm long and 0.02 mm width at the middle. The cross-section of the ultimate cells are found to be polygonal with rounded corners. The layer of natural cement present between the ultimate cells is known as middle lamella. Each ultimate cell has thick cell wall and lumen, the central canal with more or less oval cross-section.
2 . Micro structure: The cell wall of each ultimate cell is composed of an outer thin primary wall and an inner thick secondary wall, differing from each other in the molecular architecture. Both these walls of Jute ultimate cell are compared of ultra-fine micro fibrils. While in the primary wall the fibrils are lying in crisscross manner, the fibrils are almost parallelly arranged as right hand spirals in the secondary wall and shown below
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