| ▲ | tidbeck 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||
This makes me think about Vinylon[1] and this article from Reuters[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinylon [2] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/northkor... | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kijin 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
Vinalon is an organic polymer, like many other synthetic fibers we wear, but derived from coal instead of oil because North Korea has no oil. The basalt fiber OP describes is not organic at all. It sounds more like asbestos actually. | ||||||||||||||
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