Is spider web the strongest material on earth

If spiders's web is so strong then how is it broken so easily?Question Date: 2018-01-11Answer 1:

Spider webs are strong in the sense that they're strong for their extremely small thickness. A strand of a spider web (called spider silk) is very thin, so we can easily break it, but if we could weave many strands together to a thickness of a climbing rope, this spider-web-rope would be many times stronger than the rope, even stronger than some types of steel.

For comparison, the tensile strength (how much pulling force along the length of something you can apply before it breaks) of some steels are around 400 to 800 megapascals while silk from some spiders can have tensile strength of 1,000 megapascals.

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However, it is very difficult to get enough spider silk to make a thicker cable, and we do not yet have a way to use spider silk for practical purposes.

Hope these help. Thank you!

Answer 2:

It is important to think about how much spider web silk you are dealing with when you break through a usual spider web.

Its a really really small amount, right?

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