Nylon was the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer. Commercially, nylon polymer is made by reacting monomers which are either lactams, acid/amines or stoichiometric mixtures of diamines (-NH2) and diacids (-COOH). Mixtures of these can be polymerized together to make copolymers.
Princess Diana Wedding Cake. Official Cake Wedding cake and cooks for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Getty Images / Terry Fincher. The official cake for the wedding dinner was made by the Naval Armed Forces, appropriate for the wedding of Prince Charles, a naval commander.
Diana's stepmother: 'She WAS in love with Dodi - and they would have got married'. Princess Diana was madly in love with Dodi Fayed and was probably about to marry him, her stepmother insisted yesterday. Raine, Countess Spencer told the inquest on the couple that it was highly likely they would have become engaged and married - or at least started living together.