Making nylon. A thread of nylon being pulled from a dish. In the dish is a layer of decanedioyl dichloride in cyclohexane floating on an aqueous solut

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Making nylon. A thread of nylon being pulled from a dish. In the dish is a layer of decanedioyl dichloride in cyclohexane floating on an aqueous solution of hexane-1,6-diamine. Nylon forms at the interface between the two, with more nylon formed as the thread is pulled away.

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