Meaning of zylon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A synthetic polymer material, a range of thermoset liquid-crystalline polyoxazole developed in the 1980s.
   uncountable
2. An earlier synthetic material.
   uncountable

Examples

“They wore Zylon soft body armor and load-bearing vests accessorized with baton and knife holders […]”

“Like many imaginative men, Alexandre felt that he was not made for the century in which he lived, this epoch of appalling tedium all too little relieved by gadgets, by nickel, aluminum, plastic, celluloid, Bakelite, nylon, zylon.”

“I scream, extracting from my closet the zylon jacket I wear only with my collar up (a style she abhors as much as the filthy garment itself).”

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