In addition to the 5, 300 pounds of the module's contents that are destined to be spun into cotton yarn (which in turn could produce about 13, 500 T-shirts), the module also contains 9, 000 pounds of bolls, stems, leaves, and dirt that have been sucked in along with cotton by Nelson's stripper (see Figure 3.5).

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