Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Why wool keeps us warm than cotton?

Wool is a bad conductor of heat and its fibers can trap air in between themselves. Air is also bad conductor of heat. So, woolen clothes do not allow the heat in our body to escape, i.e, they trap the heat inside our body to keep us warm. That is why we feel warm when we wear woolen clothes. Cotton clothes allow more of this warmed air to "leak out" through the thinner fabric.