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• Mylar is an extraordinarily strong polyester film developed by DuPont in the early 1950s. By the 1970s, it had become DuPont’s best-selling film. • Technically speaking, Mylar is biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate. Mylar is an American brand name; other countries call the same product BoPET from the initials of its chemical composition. Basically, it’s a polyester film made from stretching its components of polyethylene terephthalate until the individual molecules line up and lock into place. This gives the material extraordinary tensile strength. It’s nearly impossible to tear or stretch a sheet of Mylar. • Mylar cannot be torn or chipped, but it can be bent and folded. It will not deteriorate with age. It can bond to most materials such as wood, metal, cloth, paper, leather, and plastics. It’s heat resistant and can withstand temperatures from -80F to 300F. Mylar is impervious to chemical reactions; will not conduct electricity; and has excellent insulating properties. It forms an impenetrable barrier for moisture and air. • All of these phenomenal properties make Mylar attractive to companies who package food. The primary enemies of food preservation are insects, temperature swings, moisture, and air. Mylar helps protect against all of these: bugs cannot chew through it. It helps protect the food from temperature changes. Most importantly, it keeps humidity and oxygen out much more efficiently than regular plastic does. Plastic baggies “breathe”; Mylar does not. • Mylar is used in thousands of ways in our modern world. When bonded to a thin sheet of aluminum, it forms a metallic material that reflects 98% of the light that hits it, while also reflecting heat. ...continued
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• The familiar “space blankets” are made of foil-bonded Mylar. NASA uses this material to make weather Answer: Dell. balloons. A five-layer sandwich of it in space suits protects astronauts from raA VERY LARGE NUMBER diation and temperature swings. It’s used as so•lar Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 sails in outer-space aircraft. It’s built into he was asked to come up with a name for a aluminized suits to protect urban firefighters, very large number: the numeral one, followed and in protective emergency heat-shielding fire by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young shelters wildland firefighters. It’s found in nephewsfor what name they would suggest. the reflective backing of solar panels; in insula• Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name tion for homes; in heat-reflecting curtains for out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character the home; as a protective film to Milton preventchose glass named Barney was very popular. from shattering; and in solar ovens to concenBarney’s last name for the number. trate heat. That shiny fold-out reflector that you • Kasner announced the new name for the big put in your car’s on the hotspelling. summer number in his nextwindshield book, altering days is Mylar. • Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin • Because it isa so effective extending theOther shelfdeveloped new internetatsearch engine. search engines searched webpageinand life of foods, Mylar is usedeach extensively the ranked them according howfoil many a food packaging industry.toThat lid times on your specific term appeared on them, but Page and yogurt cup is not foil at all, but Mylar. The Brin designed search engine search that for cellophane filmtheir on top of your TVtodinner the specific term and then find out how many doesn’t melt in the microwave isn’t really cellinks there were that led back to that page, lophane; it’s Mylar. The big roasting bag that which resulted in a better search engine. surrounds your Thanksgiving turkey in the • They decided they needed a name that oven is also made of Mylar. Look at the packreflected how many websites the search aging the coffee beansThey or cookies or potato engineof was searching. took the name chips you just bought: if it looks like foil,only but of Edward Kasner’s very large number, you tear itit;slightly, if it looks cellophane theycannot misspelled so it like ended up being but it won’t melt,the it’ssame Mylar.way Mylar are spelled exactly the bags cartoon character Barney spelled his last name. What’s also used to preserve medical products, seeds, it called? (Answer that at bottom of page)to changes and tissue samples are sensitive in moistureCOMPUTER and oxygen. FACTS Mylar balloons and kites are also very popular, although they are • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory not biodegradable never deteriorate. ought to be enoughand forwill anybody.”
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