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![]() How best to protect oneself? In medieval times, metal was used for protection. But what if you did not want to ride around on Percheron horses, specially bred to bear the eighty-plus pound weight of a suit of armor?
"Monomol" is short for monomolecular; like a monofilament line, it probably uses a string that is a single length of fiber, rather than (like most string or rope) a set of fibers twisted together.
Kevlar vests are created from a similar fiber. Kevlar is a synthetic polymer, formed from a long chain of monomers. Kevlar was first synthesized by Stephanie Kwolek in 1964 (working at DuPont); the fiber wasn't marketed until the early 1970's because of the extreme difficulty in working with this stiff synthetic fiber, first used in automobile tires. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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