Integral, electrically-conductive textile filament

An integral, electrically-conductive textile filament having a resistance of not more than about 10.sup.9 ohms/cm, the filament comprising:

• a. from 2 to about 1000 electrically-conducting, longitudinally-directed strata of fiber-forming polymeric material having finely-divided particles of electrically-conductive carbon black uniformly dispersed therein, the concentration of electrically-conductive carbon black in each electrically-conducting stratum being within the following limits:
• 1. For2 electrically-conducting strata:
• from about 30 percent by weight -- at a total concentration of carbon in the integral filament of about 1/2 percent by weight -- to about 70 percent by weight -- at a total concentration of carbon in the integral filament of about 1/4 percent by weight;
• and
• 2. For about 1000 electrically-conducting strata:
• from about 30 percent by weight -- at a total concentration of carbon in the integral filament of about 12 percent by weight -- to about 70 percent by weight -- at a total concentration of carbon in the integral filament of about 2 percent by weight;
• and
• b. in coextensive union with each electrically-conducting stratum along the length of at least one major surface thereof, a non-conducting stratum of the same fiber-forming polymeric material.