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  2. Spider silk - Wikipedia

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    Spiders use silks in many ways, in accord with the silk's properties. As spiders have evolved, so has their silks' complexity and uses, for example from primitive tube webs 300–400 million years ago to complex orb webs 110 million years ago.

  3. Is spider silk the next bulletproof material? - AOL

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    The spider silk has a greater tensile strength than steel, and the material is even strong enough to stop a bullet. In terms of everyday usage, spider silk could be a huge game changer when it ...

  4. Spidroin - Wikipedia

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    In the last decade, much research has been done about spidroin protein and spider silk in order to take advantage of some of its properties, such as its elasticity and strength. Spider silk is used in different industries, and its range of applications in biomedicine is increasing every day.

  5. Animal fiber - Wikipedia

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    The length of the silk fiber depends on how it has been prepared. Since the cocoon is made of one strand, if the cocoon is unwound carefully the fibers can be very long. Spider silk is the strongest natural fiber known. The strongest dragline silk is five times stronger than steel and three times tougher than Kevlar.

  6. Araneus ventricosus - Wikipedia

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    However, this highly valuable silk type is very difficult to create through artificial means. [13] Since spider silk has a variety of potential uses, including in fabrics and biomedical technologies, the sequence motifs for genes coding for this silk in the species have been studied to examine the potential for artificial production. In the ...

  7. Gossamer - Wikipedia

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    Fine spider silk used by spiderlings for ballooning or kiting; Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric; Gossamer may also refer to: Technology.

  8. Silk - Wikipedia

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    Some natural silk structures have been used without being unwound or spun. Spider webs were used as a wound dressing in ancient Greece and Rome, [7] and as a base for painting from the 16th century. [8] Butterfly caterpillar nests were pasted together to make a fabric in the Aztec Empire. [9]

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