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Women's nylon stockings. Also cloth, rope, brushes, and many more items are made from nylon
Varnish is not made of nylon. There are a number of different formulas for varnish, but the most popular kind is made from polyurethane.
Toothbrush (1938). Then nylon stockings (1940). Shortly after these two were made almost all nylon production was diverted to parachutes and parachute cord for use during WW2.
Nylon is a kind of synthetic fabric. Note: Synthetic means artificial, <man - made product>
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Nowadays of nylon or polyester. Eary days could have been leather, cotton or canvas
Umbrellas are made out of paper and nylon.
Nylon was invented in the United States by chemist Wallace Carothers and his team at DuPont in the 1930s. The first commercial nylon product, nylon 6,6, was introduced in 1939 as a synthetic fiber for textiles. While the concept of synthetic fibers existed earlier, nylon is credited as the first entirely synthetic fiber made from petrochemicals.
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Of course, Nylon is a thermoplastic and can be reground to pellet size and re-processed. Similar to any thermoplastic. The main issues with Nylon are the fact that there are so many nylon materials, Nylon 6, Nylon 66, Nylon 11, Nylon 6/12, Nylon 12 and so on. In the case of Polyethylene there are only a few options Low density, Medium density, High density as well as UHMW, and the applications are very limiting. Therefore the Nylon issue is more troubling. What we use for carpet and cloths is much more dynamic when it comes to Nylon. The real answer will come from a few questions: do you have enough of one single product to recycle and is it clothing or is the product of a more rigid standard like an automotive intake manifold. The last question is what color is the product and if there is more than one the only color they would be able to make from the multi colored materials is Black.
Nylon fibre was strong, elastic and light. It was lustrous and easy to wash. So the ropes are made up of nylon. Parachutes also made up of nylon.