But then once wet seems to absorb never ending quantities of water?
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Imagine a sponge with all it’s holes. Now take that and compress it to a quarter of the size. All those holes are smaller and now able to hold less. When a chamois dries out it shrinks and tightens. This means all the little pores in it close up so there’s no room for a liquid to be absorbed. When it gets wet the skin (that’s what a chamois is) loosens and the pores expand making room for more water. When you squeeze out everything already absorbed it doesn’t contact right away so now you have lots of little spaces for it to pull water into itself.
Even sponges seem to work better when primed first. I imagine this to be a similar reason?
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