The difference between nylon and dacron rope is that nylon
stretch but dacron dose not!
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Dacron is a man-made fibre and cotton is a natural fibre. Often
textiles are fabricated from a mix of these fibres. In those cases,
the textile is labeled dacron-cotton, with percentages of each
fibre posted on the label.
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Dacron is one of the names for an artificially produced, oil
based plastic