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.
Thirty years after his parents were married in the wedding of the century, Prince William had his own giant wedding. Kate and William's wedding cost an estimated $34 million. That makes it perhaps the third most expensive wedding in history. Diana and Charles take the cake with a wedding costing $110 million when adjusted for inflation. Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia come in third after paying an inflation-adjusted $66 million.