Editing Starch (section)

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* Clothing or [[laundry starch]] is used in the [[Laundry|laundering]] of clothes. It was widely used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
* Textile chemicals from starch: [[Warp (weaving)|warp]] [[Textile warp sizing|sizing agents]] are used to reduce breaking of [[yarn]]s during [[weaving]]. Starch is mainly used to size [[cotton]] based yarns. Modified starch is also used as [[textile printing]] thickener.
* In oil exploration, starch is used to adjust the viscosity of [[drilling fluid]], which is used to lubricate the drill head and suspend the grinding residue in petroleum extraction.
* Starch is also used to make some [[packing peanut]]s, and some [[dropped ceiling|drop ceiling]] tiles.
* In the [[printing]] industry, food grade starch<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.russell-webb.com/anti_set_off_powder/soluble_anti-set-off-powder.html
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* For body powder, powdered corn starch is used as a substitute for [[talcum]] powder, and similarly in other health and beauty products.
* Starch is used to produce various [[bioplastic]]s, synthetic polymers that are biodegradable. An example is [[polylactic acid]] based on glucose from starch.
* Glucose from starch can be further fermented to [[biofuel]] [[corn ethanol]] using the so-called [[wet milling]] process. Today most [[bioethanol]] production plants use the dry milling process to ferment corn or other feedstock directly to ethanol.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ethanol.org/index.php?id=37&parentid=8| title = American coalition for ethanol, Ethanol facilities| access-date = 2011-06-02| archive-date = 2011-06-25| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110625100931/http://ethanol.org/index.php?id=37&parentid=8| url-status = live}}</ref>
*In the pharmaceutical industry, starch is also used as an [[excipient]], as [[Tablet (pharmacy)|tablet]] disintegrant, and as binder. Synthetic amylose made from cellulose has a well-controlled degree of polymerization. Therefore, it can be used as a potential drug deliver carrier.<ref name="pnas.org">{{cite journal |last1=You |first1=C. |last2=Chen |first2=H. |last3=Myung |first3=S. |last4=Sathitsuksanoh |first4=N. |last5=Ma |first5=H. |last6=Zhang |first6=X.-Z. |last7=Li |first7=J. |last8=Zhang |first8=Y.- H. P. |date=April 15, 2013 |title=Enzymatic transformation of nonfood biomass to starch |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=110 |issue=18 |pages=7182–7187 |bibcode=2013PNAS..110.7182Y |doi=10.1073/pnas.1302420110 |pmc=3645547 |pmid=23589840 |doi-access=free}}</ref>