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.
Princess Diana's secret engagement. PRINCESS Diana and Dodi Fayed were already secretly engaged when she was killed, according to explosive new Â­evidence. A German journalist has come forward to tell of a visit to Monte Carlo by Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed â just seven days before the fatal Paris car crash in August 1997.