acrylic fiber


nounChemistry.
  1. any of the group of synthetic textile fibers, as Orlon, made by the polymerization of acrylonitrile as the principal component with one or more other monomers.

Origin of acrylic fiber

1
First recorded in 1950–55

Words Nearby acrylic fiber

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Scientific definitions for acrylic fiber

acrylic fiber

  1. Any of numerous synthetic fibers polymerized from acrylonitrile.

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