Hence this twist of minute threads differs from a twist of a wire in that the threads cannot untwist of themselves unless other threads come into contact with them to which they can impart the twist.
But if it is connected up with any other wire forming a complete circuit through which it can untwist itself, it will probably do so, and in untwisting would very likely overshoot the mark and become twisted in the opposite direction.
This will cause the fibres to untwist and also destroy the skin, but we shall probably notice that the fibres have shrunk.
The process is named after its inventor, Mercer, and consists in removing the skin from the fibres, causing them to untwist and, by doing so, to impart to them a lustre of silk.
Ravel and untwist the ends of the warp and filling thread.
Pull the fabric apart, untwist the fibers to see if cotton is present.
Now, if you take one of these strong habits from which a man is not able to break loose, and untwist it, you will find that it was made strong by a repetition of small habits.
If I untwist this smaller rope, which I have taken out of the larger rope, I find that it in like manner is also made of smaller ropes, or strings.
Now untwist your end and pass it two or three times round your waist, and tie a firm knot—half-a-dozen knots.
The men watched him go to the old hut that stood a couple of hundred yards from the big one, untwist the bit of fencing wire that held the door, and pass in with his broom.
