A complete individualization of cotton tufts produced in an opening room is not easy, and hence the tuft weight distribution can be largely influenced by the technique used for tuft separation. Various research workers have arrived at different types of tuft weight frequency distribution. The present study describes a tracer-tuft technique for accurate and near complete individualization of tufts. It is found that a truncated exponential distribution fits very well to the data obtained on tuft size under various processing conditions.
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