Bamboo has greater tensile strength (or resistance to being pulled apart) than steel, and it withstands compression better than concrete. However, untreated bamboo will swell from water absorption, significantly lowering its effectiveness.
Bamboo's tensile strength is roughly 28,000 per square inch versus steel's 23,000.
Proportionally, yes. If you were to have a strand of steel the same volume as a silk strand, it would be much less strong than the silk.
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Probably because steel is made of several different metals that may make it's structure stronger than most metals.
Pound for pound (or rather, microgram for microgram) spider silk has a tensile strength higher than high-grade steel, and about the same as Kevlar (the material used to make bulletproof vests).The reason we can tear through a web is only because the individual strands are so thin. If enough fibers are woven together, a thread made of spider silk could easily suspend a car - and at a fraction of the weight of a steel cable of similar strength.
A male is stronger than a female.
you don't... lions are stronger.
Of course the polar bear is stronger. Polar bears are bigger and stronger than grizzly bears, while grizzly bears are stronger and larger than lions.
Spider silk
Spider silk
Spider silk. Stronger than steel.
silk changed the world by letting us have some silk in our clothing and did you know silk is stronger than steel!
Any web-spinning spider can do it, it is a property of spider silk. When it is said that spider silk is stronger than steel, this does not mean the webs themselves as is. It means that if you had enough spider silk to weave into the same thickness as a steel cable, the spider silk would have a tensile strength five times greater.
Spiders silk is stronger than steel wire of the same weight. Very fine steel wire is easily broken by hand, but if you could make spider silk of the same weight as normal steel wire it would be much harder to break.
Spider silk. The reason it seems so weak when you accidentally walk through a web is because it is so thin. If you could make spider silk thicker it would be stronger than a steel cable.
Honestly, it depends. Pound for pound, there are a number of fabrics that are stronger than most metals. For instance, Kevlar is a fabric and is far stronger than steel. Golden orb spider silk has been woven into fabric and is far stronger than steel or Kevlar.
Yes. Actually... a diamond is NOT 'stronger' than steel. A diamond is 'harder' than steel, but it is not stronger.
Steel is stronger than nylon
Yes. Natural silk is far more stronger than nylon. Because nylon has filaments.
Yes, cotton is stronger than silk because ithas a longer foliage resistance. hope this helps!