cotton wool

cotton fibres refined into a fluffy absorbant
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cotton wool

Summary

cotton wool ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cotton wool's image is recorded as Vatta2.jpg[2].
  • cotton wool's made from material is recorded as cotton[3].
  • cotton wool's subclass of is recorded as cotton fabric[4].
  • cotton wool's subclass of is recorded as absorbent[5].
  • cotton wool's has use is recorded as thermal insulation[6].
  • cotton wool's has use is recorded as tamponade[7].
  • cotton wool's Commons category is recorded as Cotton wool[8].
  • cotton wool's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 56309[9].
  • cotton wool's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • cotton wool's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • cotton wool's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • cotton wool's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[13].
  • cotton wool's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • cotton wool's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • cotton wool's different from is recorded as Vadd[16].
  • cotton wool's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121m7yyr[17].
  • cotton wool's Concepticon concept set ID is recorded as 3442[18].
  • cotton wool's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as vata-1d64bc[19].
  • cotton wool's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 75046[20].

Why It Matters

cotton wool ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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