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the H-bonds form a backbone of β-pleated sheets which gives the silk its strength.
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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.
What decorations is made out of spider webs?
silk
How does long does spider silk last?
silk lasts for at least 20 years
Why do people make clothes out of silkworm silk and not spider silk?
This link may help to explain why people don't use spider silk commercially: http://www.articlealley.com/article_756038_54.html
What is the common name for spider silk?
A cobweb.
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 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.
Young modulus for spider silk?
Spider silk is incredibly tough and is stronger by weight than steel. Quantitatively, spider silk is five times stronger than steel of the same diameter. It has been suggested that a Boeing 747 could be stopped in flight by a single pencil-width strand. Spider silk is almost as strong as Kevlar, the toughest man-made polymer. It is finer than the human hair (most threads are a few microns in diameter) and is able to keep its strength below -40°C. The toughest silk is the dragline silk from the Golden Orb-Weaving spider (Nephilia clavipes), so-calledbecause it uses silk of a golden hue to make orb webs.~Фродо Скотт
What is the golden silk spider's phylum?
Arthropoda is the phylum of the Golden Silk Spider.
Why do spiders web need to be strong and stretchy?
Well silk is known to be stronger than steel so at its best the spider can weave a stronger web than a full grown human
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.
What silk is stronger than steel?
Spider silk
How does a spider get silk?
silk it is the heary and germss to divine
What insect actually creates silk?
Silk spider
