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.
Anwar Hussein/Getty 8. Princess Diana and Prince Charles of England Princess Diana wore a mind-blowingly massive David and Elizabeth Emanuel wedding gown, and in case you can't tell based on the sleeve-epicness, it was made in the '80s. By the way, the dress had 10,000 pearls and a 25 foot train.