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It is true. However, manufacturing even a single bulletproof vest out of spider silk would take several years, due to the extreme difficulties involved in harvesting significant quantities of the material. But yes, our most advanced synthetic fibre technologies find themselves equal to the tensile strength of spider silk.
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What silk is stronger than steel?
Spider silk
What is strongest variety of silk?
Spider silk. Stronger than steel.
What is stronger than steel?
Spider silk
What spider can spin a web five times 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.
What is the name of fine strong silk?
Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) has the toughest silk ever seen - more than twice as tough as any previously described silk, and more than 10 times stronger than Kevlar.
What insect made material is stronger than steel?
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.
On runescape where do you steal silk from?
You can steal silk from a trader in Ardougne Market.
Why are Spider filaments stronger than steel but easily destroyed?
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.
Is natural silk stronger than nylon?
Yes. Natural silk is far more stronger than nylon. Because nylon has filaments.
What is the golden silk spider's phylum?
Arthropoda is the phylum of the Golden Silk Spider.
How are spider silk and steel alike?
It is said that spider silk has the strength of steel.
Where is the place where you can trade your spider silk in for money pixie hollow?
Spider silk IS money
