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Why was the synthetic material nylon given such a name?

A popular myth says that the name of the synthetic material nylon (in English "nylon") was formed from the abbreviations of the names of two cities - New York and London. In fact, the origin of this word was the expression "no-run", which in this context can be translated as "no puffs", since one of the first commercial uses of nylon was stockings. And so that buyers do not accuse DuPont of unfair advertising, because there were still puffs on stockings, "no-run" was transformed into "nylon".

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