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[edit] Twaron is not Kevlar

As this entry notes, Kevlar is a registered trademark of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. Twaron is manufactured by Teijin Twaron, and is a different product, like Coke and Pepsi are different products. As Coke and Pepsi are both colas, Kevlar and Twaron are both aramid fibers. Kevlar, however, is not "also known as" Twaron; they are two competing products.

[edit] 5 times as strong as steel?

This is debateable as there are many different types of steel. It could be between 3.31 and 77 times as strong, depending on your source of data. How about Dupont claim Kevlar is 5 times as strong as steel?

- Does it help that people say that its 5 times stronger weight for weight?

its a throw away comment as the type of strength isn't qualified like tensile or dynamic

It's imposible to be 5 times stronger than a good steel polyalloy. Maybe it's steel 5 times stronger than kevlar.

[edit] the picture

[edit] Kevlar in paintball

A recent edit to remove a reference to kevlar vests being used in paintball led to do a bit of searching. Paintball accessories appear to include pants with kevlar kneepads, and kevlar face protection. But I didn't find any kevlar shirts/vests for paintball. As this was an unsourced reference, I'm thinking of removing it again, unless someone can find such a thing. Rwessel (talk) 04:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

DYE Paintball also used to have Kevlar reinforced shoes Aam25-NJITWILL (talk) 01:07, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

[edit] APA Sources

The APA formatted source for the DuPont page on Kevlar (the home page for reference 16) is as follows: Welcome to Kevlar. (2005, June 04). DuPont the Miracles of Science. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from http://www2.dupont.com/Kevlar/en_US/index.html

The APA formatted source for the official Motorola Droid RAZR page is as follows: Droid RAZR by Motorola. (2011, October 11). Motorola Mobility. Retrieved November 4, 2011, from http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/DROID-RAZR-BY-MOTOROLA-US-EN

The APA formatted source for reference 21 is as follows: Hopkin, K. (2008, February 22). Fabric Produces Electricity as You Wear it. Retrieved November 12, 2011, from http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=3E0E600F-F7B2-4F1F-DA377027B8FDC443&sc=rss

The APA formatted source for reference 9 is as follows: Woodford, C. (2009, December 7). Explain that stuff. Retrieved November 12, 2011, from http://www.explainthatstuff.com/kevlar.html

Aam25-NJITWILL (talk) 00:25, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

These are great. Appropriately formatted sources give a better level of credibility to the article. JohnHenley (talk) 14:37, 9 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.71.7.41 (talk)

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[edit] Twaron is not Kevlar

[edit] 5 times as strong as steel?

[edit] the picture

[edit] Kevlar in paintball

[edit] APA Sources

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