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.
However Princess Diana's bridal gown continues to draw crowds of people with hundreds of thousands of people visiting it since she got married 30 years ago. The famous dress with its 25ft train is currently sitting in a glass box 4,000 miles away in Toronto as it tours the world.