Talk:Nylon
From Academic Kids
I removed this paragraph:
- The word nylon is no longer a trademark as it was deemed to have become a generic term. In a historic lawsuit competitors claimed that Nylon was such a household word that it could no longer be considered a Registered Trademark. As a result, Nylon is now a word in the English language.
Here are references stating that "nylon" was never trademarked, including Dupont itself:
- http://www.dupont.com/tactel/student/html/diduknow.html
- http://antron.dupont.com/content/about_us/ant20_03.shtml
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpantyhose.htm
- http://www.kathysnostalgiabilia.com/lemelson.htm
- http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Teflon/Teflon-HistoryDuPont.htm
See genericized trademark for a list of former trademarks. Samw 00:43, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Correction? - about - ' inorganic ingredients: coal, water and air'
In the entry for nylon second paragraph, second sentence reads:
It was the first synthetic fibre to be made entirely from inorganic ingredients: coal, water and air.
My question is coal really an 'inorganic ingredient'? So should be be corrected if it isn't a true statement?
- Also, it is very confusing to have Nylon in Category:Organic polymers when the entry states it is inorganic.
The following comment on the second paragraph looks like a discussion statement, so I moved it here --BjKa 13:10, 18 May 2005 (UTC) :
The general information above is fairly close to what goes into PA/Nylon polymerization. However, "coal and steam" is a bit simplistic, and the combination of HMD and AA to make PA-66 leaves out quite a bit of details. In fact, you CAN get PA-66 from other starting monomers. And you CAN (and always do) get any polyamide from anything other than coal.
