Abstract
THOUGH jute is a commercially important fibre, the study of its internal structure has not received so much attention as other cellulose fibres such as cotton and ramie. X-ray investigations of jute have recently been started in India. Banerjee and Roy1 have found that the lattice structure of the cellulose crystallites in jute is identical with those in other cellulose fibres. The presence or absence of resins, fats and lignin does not produce any change in this structure. They have also found that the mean dimensions of the cellulose crystallites in jute are of the order of 62 A. along the fibre axis and 25 A. and 40 A. along the a and c axes respectively, so they are much smaller than those in ramie or cotton. The work is being carried out by Sircar, Rudra and Saha2.
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