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MULTIFILAMENT yarn spun from polyethylene terephthalate polymer (‘Terylene’ polyester yarn) is non-crystalline and almost unoriented. After drawing, it becomes highly oriented and moderately well crystallized1, and in this state at room temperature it has a high initial tensile modulus, and recovers almost completely from strains of up to 1 per cent2.
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WOODS, D. Effects of Crystallization on the Glass–Rubber Transition in Polyethylene Terephthalate Filaments. Nature 174, 753–754 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174753b0
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