From Martin Bide, University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island
Feedback (17 January) asks readers to suggest
“Papers I wish I hadn’t written”.
In what I have always thought of as an uncharacteristic masterpiece of comic
timing, some colleagues and I did some work on novel methods to clean wool
before it is spun and woven into fabric. After much experimentation, we selected
a nice safe solvent, and just as the debate on ozone depletion was gathering
momentum, we published “The Scouring of Raw Wool Using Freon TFT Solvent” (R. S.
Perry, D. J. Gray, K. Cui and M. J. Bide, Textile Chemist and Colorist,
vol 19, p 19, 1988).
