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noun - an acrylic fiber or the lightweight crease-resistant fabric made with Orlon yarns
A trademark used for an acrylic fiber or yarns made from this fiber.
noun - an acrylic fiber -- a trademark
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| a synthetic acrylic fibre used for textiles and knitwear, or a fabric made from it. |
| an acrylic fiber or the lightweight crease-resistant fabric made with Orlon yarns |
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Acrylic fibers are synthetic fibers made from a polymer (polyacrylonitrile) with an average molecular weight of ~100,000, about 1900 monomer units. Acrylic fibers are very useful in our daily lives .For a fiber to be called "acrylic" in the US, the polymer must contain at least 85% acrylonitrile monomer. Typical comonomers are vinyl acetate or methyl acrylate. DuPont created the first acrylic fibers in 1941 and trademarked them under the name Orlon. It was first developed in the mid-1940s but was not produced in large quantities until the 1950s. Strong and warm, acrylic fiber is often used for sweaters and tracksuits and as linings for boots and gloves, as well as in furnishing fabrics and carpets. It is manufactured as a filament, then cut into short staple lengths similar to wool hairs, and spun into yarn. * Modacrylic is a modified acrylic fiber that contains at least 35% and at most 85% acrylonitrile monomer. The comonomers vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride or vinyl bromide used in |