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Etymology[]
From the inventor of the process John Mercer of Great Harwood, Lancashire, in the middle of the 19th century.
Alternative spellings[]
- (UK) mercerise
Verb[]
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to Mercerize (third-person singular simple present mercerizes, present participle mercerizing, simple past and past participle mercerized)
- To treat cotton fabric with sodium hydroxide to make it more lustrous and accepting of dyes.
Derived terms[]
- mercerisation, mercerization
Translations[]
to treat cotton with NaOH
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