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KamaAina

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17. Cotton wasn't that easy to process, either

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #10)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 06:44 PM

Nov 2013

until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. (Aside: A feminist friend once claimed that his landlady had actually invented it, but they wouldn't grant a woman a patent back then.) Maybe there's an easier way to get the pectins out, some sort of chemical process maybe.

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That is correct. EOTE Nov 2013 #13

Processing difficulty comes to mind jmowreader Nov 2013 #10

Cotton wasn't that easy to process, either KamaAina Nov 2013 #17

They're probably working on it jmowreader Nov 2013 #18

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