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Nylon
Title: Nylon
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 396 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nylon
THE NYLON POLYMER
WHO?, WHAT?, WHEN?, AND
HOW? OF NYLON
Nylon was one of the first commercial polymers ever developed. It was first invented by a team of chemists at the Du Pont de Nemours and Company research facility in the 1930’s. This team was led by Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers. The goal of nylon was to create a polymer that was easily made into fiber form. The first nylon polymer that was created was …showed first 75 words of 396 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 396 total…parachutes, tire cord, and other equipment. Because of its major uses in the war, it made it almost impossible for women to buy a pair of stockings.
CONCLUSION
As illustrated, nylon has many diverse functions in different areas. Although nylon was first developed as a fiber, it quickly gained uses. Nylon also lead the way for many other synthetic polymers. People will likely keep developing new uses for the nylon polymers and other similar polymers.
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