Question

In a science exhibition, one student mixed two transparent liquids in a beaker and got a sticky material from the interface of two liquids and he claims that the material formed is nylon 6,6. 

1. Name the two liquids he mixed. 

2. Name the monomer of nylon 6. 

3. Suggest two uses of nylon 6, 6.

Answer 1

1. Hexamethylene diammine & adipic acid. 

2. Caprolactum 

3. Uses of nylon 6, 6:

• For making sheets, bristles for brushes.
• In textile industry.