Why is cotton so fluffy?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Cotton is soft and strong. It comes from cotton plants, and gets turned into everything from t-shirts to cotton balls. But why is cotton so fluffy? We asked biologist Candace Haigler to help us find the answer.
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| 0:34.5 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:41.6 | Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, |
| 0:43.9 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Philippa, the pillow stuffer. |
| 0:51.7 | Um. |
| 0:52.3 | Um. |
| 0:53.4 | Um. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm. stuffer. Um. |
| 1:04.4 | I sit in a room filled with heaps of white fluff, and I spend my day's stuffing pillows till they puff. |
| 1:07.4 | Let me show you how my job works. |
| 1:10.4 | See this pillowcase? Empty as a sock. Time to stuff it with fluff. |
| 1:16.0 | Grab a handful of white fluff from the pile and stuff with style. Stuff and fluff and fluff. |
| 1:21.7 | How fluffy puff stuffing makes me smile. And I'll tell you a secret. |
| 1:30.0 | This white fluff is made from cotton. |
| 1:37.6 | The same thing your t-shirt is made out of, or the cotton balls in the nurse's office, or your favorite towel. |
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