Nylon is made of repeating units with amide linkages between them: hence it is frequently referred to as a polyamide.
Most types of nylon are condensation polymers, formed by reacting almost exactly equal parts of a diamine and a dicarboxylic acid, so that peptide bonds form on each end of a given monomer in a process analogous to biological polypeptide formation.
In the case of "Nylon 6,6", there are 6 CH units between the reactive dicarboxylic acid and 6 CH units between diamine linkages.
In the case of "Nylon 6", there are 6 CH units between the reactive carboxylicacid and amine linkages (which were originally located on the same monomer, caprolactam).
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These can then be woven into soft, Nylon is made from some of the chemicals we get from crude oil.
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