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Textile samples of cotton, polyester and cotton-polyester blend, were placed outside in an open eucalypt woodland in Western Sydney. during the Australian summer and winter. and allowed to degrade naturally. They were sampled on days 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 31, 48, 59, 94, 149, 184, 212, 268, and 365 for the summer trial, and on days 0, 3, 6, 9, 13, 20, 37, 51, 65, 79, 100, 140, 210, 269, 325, 381, 443, 499 and 565 for the winter trial. A Nicolet Magna-IR 6700 spectrometer (Thermo Scientific, USA) coupled with a liquid nitrogen cooled mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) detector was used for the collection of spectra. An ATR accessory with a germanium crystal and a 45° angle of incidence was employed, with specimens placed directly onto the crystal for analysis. Spectra a spectral resolution of 4 cm− 1 were recorded over a range of 4000–550 cm− 1 and averaged over a minimum of 128 scans. OMNIC software (Version 8.1.11, Thermo Scientific, USA) was used for spectral analysis. The outputs are csv files, collected into two folders Trial 1 (summer) and Trial 2 (winter), each with 3 subfolders of results (cotton, polyester, cotton-polyester blend). The measurement values recorded for each are the absorbance and wavenumber in cm-1. There are 171 csv files in each folder and they are labeled by the sample day.
Data time period: 2013 to 2015
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: Western Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- DOI : 10.26195/5BBACDDD05C3E
