2007-01-09 08:30:10 · 4 answers · asked by BARBARA S 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
mixing monomers adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine.
its really cool ask your science teacher to show you. it makes a snot like reidue that is nylon.
2007-01-09 08:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by brokerman74067 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Made by inventors from two cities - New York hence NYand London hence LON.
Nylon is a thermoplastic material, first used commercially in a nylon-bristled toothbrush (1938), followed more famously by women's “nylons” stockings (1940). It is made of repeating units linked by peptide bonds (another name for amide bonds) and is frequently referred to as polyamide (PA). Nylon was the first commercially successful polymer and the first synthetic fiber to be made entirely from coal, water and air. These are formed into monomers of intermediate molecular weight, which are then reacted to form long polymer chains. It was intended to be a synthetic replacement for silk and substituted for it in parachutes after the United States entered World War II in 1941, making stockings hard to find until the war's end. Nylon fibers are now used in fabrics and ropes, and solid nylon is used for mechanical parts and as an engineering material. Engineering grade Nylon is processed by extrusion, casting & injection molding. Type 6/6 Nylon 101 is the most common commercial grade of Nylon, and Nylon 6 is the most common commercial grade of cast Nylon.
2007-01-09 17:01:09 · answer #2 · answered by ftumpsh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nylon comes from mixing polymide resins(polymers) with high melting points to form fibers. A polymer is a natural or man-made material formed by combining units, called monomers, into long chains of repeating patterns.
2007-01-09 16:56:33 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. Bindergarten 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Plant...
2007-01-09 20:21:51 · answer #4 · answered by Devmeister 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋