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How are spider silk and steel alike?
It is said that spider silk has the strength of steel.
Which material has the highest tensile strength spider silk copper glass or plastic?
spider silk's tensile strength (per unit of density) is about ten times that of steel cable.
What gives spider dragline silk its strength?
the H-bonds form a backbone of β-pleated sheets which gives the silk its strength.
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 golden silk spider's phylum?
Arthropoda is the phylum of the Golden Silk Spider.
Is spider silk is more stronger than steal?
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.
Where is the place where you can trade your spider silk in for money pixie hollow?
Spider silk IS money
Is a diamond stronger than a spiders web?
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.
How does a spider get silk?
silk it is the heary and germss to divine
What insect actually creates silk?
Silk spider
What silk is stronger than steel?
Spider silk
Is synthetic silk still called silk?
Japan has developed technology for producing a synthetic spider silk with the same qualities as natural spider silk. Not all synthetic silk has the same qualities as the natural silk though.
