Thursday, October 21, 2010
What is the spider silk made up of?
Basically, i got this question in mah mind...nd asked mah teacher about this.nd he said that it is simply made up of PROTEINS.Indeed, spider's silk or the thread that makes the spider web is made up of long chains of amino acids...they are made of two amino acids.-GLYCINE and ALANINE.
Spidersilk is extremely strong and anot FIVE TIMES STRONG AS STEEL!!!! AND CAN STRECH ABOUT 20% MORE THAN ITS ORIGINAL STATE!!!QUITE AMAZING!!!!!
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Then why do we not use spidersilk to build buildings ?
gud question..researching..lol!!
PhD topic found.
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