Cotton gin
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cotton-gin-178-2998693
title:
Cotton gin
text:
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. The separated seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil. Handheld roller gins had been used in the Indian subcontinent since at earliest AD 500 and then in other regions. The Indian worm-gear roller gin was invented sometime around the 16th century and has, according to Lakwete, remained virt
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description:
Machine that separates cotton from seeds
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin
date created:
2002-04-05T01:05:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T10:54:27Z
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