Question

Payal went to the market to buy some sarees for her mother. She took out a thread from the edge is the two sarees shown buy the shopkeeper and burnt them one thread burnt with the smell of burning hair and one with the smell of burning paper.which thread is from a pure cotton saree and which one is from pure silk saree ? Give reasons for your answer

Answer 1

The saree whose thread burnt with the smell of burning hair is of silk because both silk and our hair are made up of protein therefore they both smell same. The other saree is of cotton.