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mercerisation

mercerisation noun: a process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.

Noun

mercerisation (countable and uncountable, plural mercerisations)

  1. A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.

mercerisation meaning in Tamil

mercerisation in Tamil

காரவினையாக்கம்

Forms of mercerisation

pluralmercerisations

Origin of mercerisation

See mercerize.

Questions about mercerisation

What does mercerisation mean?
Mercerisation means a process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
What is mercerisation in Tamil?
Mercerisation in Tamil is காரவினையாக்கம். See Mercerisation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mercerisation?
Mercerisation is a noun.
What is the plural of mercerisation?
The plural of mercerisation is mercerisations.

Words near mercerisation in the dictionary

  1. mercer
  2. Mercer County
  3. merceress
  4. merceresses
  5. merceries
  6. mercerisation
  7. mercerisations
  8. mercerise
  9. mercerised
  10. merceriser
  11. mercerises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercerisation (page history and authors); mercerisation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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