Meanings of artificial silk in English

And the continual quest for an artificial silk led to nylon.

If it produces a yellow solution it is artificial silk, if colorless it is pure silk.

This artificial silk mantle will permit of handling even after it has been in use for several hundred hours.

These are in brief the chief processes for making what is commonly but quite improperly called " artificial silk."

When elderly women have little or no hair left, they make up with artificial silk plaits for the deficiencies of nature.

I will only say that if you have a grudge against some fisherman give him a fly line of artificial silk, 'most any kind.

Furthermore, it is a most important product in the making of linoleum, artificial silk, gunpowder, paints, soaps, inks, celluloid, varnishes, sausage casings, chloroform and iodoform.

Artificial silk can be dyed in the same manner as ordinary silk.

Artificial silk is inferior in strength and elasticity to pure silk.

Artificial silk is made by dissolving cellulose obtained from cotton.

Artificial silk will soften under the operation and break up into a mass of pulp.

Artificial silk bears a deceptive resemblance to the natural article, and has nearly the same luster.

' Artificial silks' obtained from the nitrocelluloses.

"And these artificial silks of which you were telling me-arethey good for anything else but for making braids?"