英语词汇mercerize的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mercerize. A mercer is a dealer in textiles, but the old word has nothing to do with the method for treating cotton textiles called mercerization. The process was invented by John Mercer (1791–1866), an English calico printer who discovered it in 1850. Mercerizing involves treating material under tension with a caustic soda solution and then acid to neutralize the alkali used. This shrinks, strengthens, and gives a permanent silky lus- ter to the yarn or fabric, also making it easier to dye. Mercer’s method wasn’t widely successful until long after he died, the breakthrough coming in 1895 when the 25 percent shrinkage was virtually eliminated by treating the material under tension, the one factor he had overlooked. The inventor had named his process “sodaizing,” but the hundreds of millions of yards of material and thread annually produced by the method are called mercerized in tribute to his pioneering work.

词汇	mercerize
词源	mercerize. A mercer is a dealer in textiles, but the old word has nothing to do with the method for treating cotton textiles called mercerization. The process was invented by John Mercer (1791–1866), an English calico printer who discovered it in 1850. Mercerizing involves treating material under tension with a caustic soda solution and then acid to neutralize the alkali used. This shrinks, strengthens, and gives a permanent silky lus- ter to the yarn or fabric, also making it easier to dye. Mercer’s method wasn’t widely successful until long after he died, the breakthrough coming in 1895 when the 25 percent shrinkage was virtually eliminated by treating the material under tension, the one factor he had overlooked. The inventor had named his process “sodaizing,” but the hundreds of millions of yards of material and thread annually produced by the method are called mercerized in tribute to his pioneering work.
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