Leggings in the form of skin-tight trousers, a tighter version of the capris ending at mid- or near ankle length, made its way into fashion in the 1960s and were worn with a large belt or waistband and slip-on high heels or ballet flat-styled shoes. [citation needed]Leggings made from a nylon-lycra blend (usually 90% nylon, 10% lycra) have traditionally been …
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Many of you may have noticed that this blog hasn’t seen any activity in the past couple of years. Steve Newman, the former author, editor, and blogger extraordinaire, has not had the time to continue it, so he has regretfully relinquished his blogging duties, and I …
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Who invented nylon? Photo: Chemical laboratory courtesy of NASA Glenn Research Center (NASA-GRC).. Everyone’s heard of nylon, but hardly anyone outside the world of chemistry knows the name of Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), its brilliant, enigmatic, and ultimately tragic inventor. Carothers was a promising academic chemist working at …
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“Monofilament” is a term of art used to describe extruded, single-strand fishing line made from a variety of different plastics. Monofilament leaders and tippets are now made from three distinctly different plastic materials: nylon, fluorocarbon and bioabsorbable polymer.
Stage 1. Market Development . This is when a new product is first brought to market, before there is a proved demand for it, and often before it has been fully proved out technically in all respects.
Introduction. If climate change is the key process in the natural world impacting on sustainable development, then globalisation is the parallel process in the human world, creating both opportunities for, and barriers to, sustainable development.
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