dacron

One running joke there was an effort by environmentalists to protect the Dacron Nine-eyed Trout, which was only found near Dacron's nuclear power plant.

The first artificial arteries for cardiac bypass surgery made of Dacron sewn at home on a standard sewing machine.

You never see round parachutes, rigs without reliable Automatic Openers on the reserve, dacron (a material used for lines).

The new valve and about 7 inches of new Dacron aortic arch were sewed in.

I have used Dacron fishing line, but that is mostly because I had a bunch of it laying around.

This was repaired via Dacron stint during open heart surgery.

I have had two open heart surgeries, three valve replacements, one valve repair, and an ascending aortic aneurism repaired with a Dacron graft.

As a sailor, I’ve also seen the mind blowing chafe/wear resistance of polyester/dacron.

I had no idea there was that much dacron/terylene clothing about these days!

Off the top of my head I am thinking dyneema threads inside (instead of dacron/polyester) and a carbon fiber/mylar composite for the outside cloth, like is used for high end racing sails on sailboats.

> According to Wikipedia, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is about 18% of world polymer production and is the fourth-most-produced polymer; 60% of PET is used for clothing As fibre, it's known as dacron OR terylene.

So, depending on your age, and depending on the repair your aorta needed, the surgeon likely decided that since you will have to undergo the knife at some point again anyway (either for graft replacement for the Dacron that now makes up the proximal part of your aorta) or eventually due to the valve, you might as well minimise the complexity by only doing one thing at a time.

Modern small pleasure yacht cruising sails "canvas" is laminated polyester, aka dacron, which is far thicker, more durable, springier, and more common than mylar.

While of course the bison there are fine, this reminds me of the National Lampoon's joke newspaper from Dacron, Ohio.

Dacron sails and sheets (ropes) almost never fail from chafe.

I think the Dacron-based remnants that is in tatters can be sent into PET recycling streams, but the more exotic stuff is going to be more challenging like windmill blades.