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bch 44 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strong...

Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.

necovek 44 days ago [–]

So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.

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