nylon

The portmanteau NYLON, also spelled NYLon or, less often, NY-Lon, starts with the concept of New York City, USA, and London, England, as twin cities — the financial and cultural capitals of the Anglo-American 'world' — and takes the concept a step further, treating the two cities as "a single city separated by an ocean". There is a community of high-earning professionals who commute with extreme frequency — sometimes several days in a given week — between New York and London on its particular transatlantic air route. As a result, the term "NYLon" can be used either to refer in a sense to the concept of the two cities being 'intertwined' or easily traversable generally, or in a more micro form, as a specific noun — as in "s/he is a NYLon" to refer to a person who travels extensively between the two and treats each as equal senses of "home".

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, more specifically aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides. They can be melt-processed into fibers, films or shapes. The first example of nylon (nylon 66) was produced on February 28, 1935, by Wallace Carothers at DuPont's research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station. Nylon polymers have found significant commercial applications in fibers (apparel, flooring and rubber reinforcement), in shapes (molded parts for cars, electrical equipment, etc.), and in films (mostly for food packaging)

Nylon steht für:

• Nylon (Kunstfaser), Handelsname für eine Kunstfaser aus Polyamid
• Nylon (Band), eine Berliner Band

El nailon o nilón (grafía en español del nombre comercial nylon, marca registrada) es un polímero artificial que pertenece al grupo de las poliamidas. Se genera formalmente por policondensación de un diácido con una diamina. La cantidad de átomos de carbono en las cadenas de la amina y del ácido se puede indicar detrás de las iniciales de poliamida. El más conocido, el PA6.6, es por lo tanto el producto formal del ácido hexanodioico (ácido adípico) y la hexametilendiamina.

Nylon is de triviale naam voor een groep synthetische polymeren, die tot de groep van polyamiden behoren. De belangrijkste nylonsoort werd op 20 september 1938 gepatenteerd door Wallace Carothers van het chemische bedrijf DuPont en wordt sinds 1938 verkocht. Nylon kent vele toepassingen: van panty tot kunstgewricht en van muurplug tot klimtouw. Nylon was de eerste commercieel succesvolle polymeer en is heden ten dage niet meer weg te denken in onze maatschappij.

Le nylon est le nom d'une matière plastique de type polyamide souvent utilisée comme fibre textile ; il est inventé le par Wallace Carothers qui travaille alors chez Du Pont de Nemours, une entreprise de chimie américaine.