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Scientists Crack Code for Making Spider Silk
Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: their threads have have the same tensile strength — the amount of “stretch” a material can endure without breaking — as steel, but is only one-sixth as dense.
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Scientists Crack Code for Making Spider Silk
Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: their threads have have the same tensile strength — the amount of “stretch” a material can endure without breaking — as steel, but is only one-sixth as dense.
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