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Once, Paheli visited a tailor shop and brought home some cuttings of fabric to study their properties. She took two pieces and found that one of the pieces were shrinking when it was burnt with a candle. However the other did not shrink on burning. Can you help her to find out which of the two was a cotton fabric and which a silk fabric?

ScienceClass 6CBSEAnswered 27 Mar 2026
Answer

Solution:

On burning, silk fabric shrinks due to the presence of protein whereas cotton fabric does not shrink.

Science · Class 6