The undercoat is made of a polymer that acts like the glue on a Post-it note.
To withstand the country's bitter climate, cashmere goats not only have a fleece of thick long hairs, but also an undercoat of fine down.
Instead, Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, working in collaboration with AkzoNobel, a paints company, proposes to do the job with special paint.As is often the case with paint jobs, the new anti-chemical-weapon paint needs an undercoat and a top coat.
Presumably they would have done the same to any human forebear who had had the evolutionary temerity to shed his hairy coat without replacing it with a suitably dark undercoat of melanin-laden skin.Why humans became naked apes is still a mystery.
Catching a few more rays No sow's ear Six degrees of mobilisation A silent healer Flushed with pride Lost in cyberspace Zap, crackle and pop Lighting the way Look, no hands Altered states A knight in digital armour ReprintsAs is often the case with paint jobs, the new anti-chemical-weapon paint needs an undercoat and a top coat.
The fine, shorter fibre of the insulating undercoat, 1.5 5 inches (4 13 cm) long, is the product generally called camel hair, or camel hair wool.
Both the outer coat and the undercoat are shed at the same time, and combing, frequently by machine, separates the desirable down from the coarse outer hairs.
In all wild species of sheep, the outer coat takes the form of hair, and beneath this lies a short undercoat of fine wool that has been developed into the fleece of domesticated sheep.
Descended from the water spaniel, it is about 9 to 12 inches (23 to 30 cm) tall and features a short blunt muzzle, silky ears that drop, and a puffy, silky, curled coat and an undercoat.
The petycote (probably derived from the Old French petite cote, "little coat") appeared in literature in the 15th century in reference to a kind of padded waistcoat, or undercoat, worn for warmth over the shirt by men.
