BS EN ISO 1833-12:2020

This standard BS EN ISO 1833-12:2020 Textiles. Quantitative chemical analysis is classified in these ICS categories:

• 59.060.20 Man-made fibres
• 59.060.01 Textile fibres in general

This document specifies a method, using dimethylformamide, to determine the mass percentage of acrylic, modacrylic, chlorofibre or elastane, after removal of non-fibrous matter, in textiles made of mixtures of

• acrylic, certain modacrylics, certain chlorofibres, certain elastane fibres

with

• wool, animal hair, silk, cotton, viscose, cupro, modal, lyocell, polyamide, polyester, polypropylene, elastomultiester, elastolefin, melamine, polypropylene/polyamide bicomponent, polyacrylate or glass fibres.

It is not applicable to animal hair, wool and silk dyed with chromium based mordant dyes.