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BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is spider silk made of?

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Over millions of years of evolution, spiders
have developed the perfect material for constructing a net: spider 
silk. Material researchers can get pretty worked up just talking 
about its properties. It has five times the tensile strength that a 
steel thread of the same diameter has, and is at the same time more 
ductile - stretchable - than most plastic fibers. In entertaining 
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