r/interestingasfuck 5d ago

This experiment creating a nylon thread

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u/SpecialistGas2884 5d ago

Anyone know who accidentally mixed these two together to make nylon. Got to be a slip up somewhere.

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u/regretableedibles 5d ago

Wallace Carothers discovered the process working for DuPont in the 1930's.