Cellulose: Part 1

It's funny how all of these go hand-in-hand. Sugar leads to other crops being used economically. With the slave trade being boosted by all the sugar, it also branched out into cotton. Many people think of cotton as a fiber, but it is in fact a plant. The plant has a globular pod known as a boll, which contain oily seeds. The Industrial Revolution revolved around cotton. Lancashire became the center of the Revolution in England, his complex grew and grew. All his workers needed to manufacture the cotton were well treated. Lancashire also had a good supply of coal, which became important for steam power later on. Socially, cotton became huge in transforming Europe, many midlands were converted to fields for cotton. Cellulose is the primary component of cotton. Cellulose is a polymer of glucose, and provide support. In structural and storage polysaccharides, glucose units are joined to each other through carbon number 1 on a glucose molecule and carbon number 4 on the adjacent glucose molecule. Each molecule can repeat this process and become enormous chains. The reason cotton is such a desirable fabric is because of the unique structure of cellulose. Going back to the chains, when cellulous makes long chains, sometimes they come together and make a helix, which is better at storage. They are very good "hard drives" that store a lot of information.