T&T: "Poly" rope confusion

[Sean Welsh]

> Let's start with nylon. OK, nylon isn't a "poly" ...

Actually, it is.  "Nylon", which is actually now a generic name (first 
coined by duPont) for an entire family of fibers with somewhat different 
characteristics, is technically a "polyamide."

So all the line you've discussed is "poly" of one sort or another, which 
makes sense, since virtually all man-made petrochemical fibers are made 
from polymers.

FWIW.

(And, no, I'm not a chemist or chemical engineer.  But I have stayed at 
a Holiday Inn Express.)

-Sean
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