what is the strongest material on the planet?

Answer 1

Cheries Blairs knicker elastic

Answer 2

The answer depends a bit upon what you mean be "strongest". In the usual sense of the term "strongest" is taken to ean "hardest", in which case, diamond is the strongest of natural occurring materials.

If what you mean is strongest in compression, then even ordinary concrete is high on the list.

I think, however, that you are wondering what is the strongest material when subjected to tension. In that case, carbon nanotubes are probably the strongest materials yet discovered. Although not a practical material for everyday use (yet), this material has been tested to be at least 50 times stronger in tension than steel. Carbon nanotubes are long tubular shaped molecules of carbon, far, far smaller in diameter than a human hair, yet can be as long as several millimeters in length. A concise explanation is available here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

Answer 3

It is a general truism that the stronger (in electron volts of energy) the chemical bonds in a material, and the shorter (in nanometers or picometers) those bonds are, the stronger the material holds together.
In this regard, diamond (despite its brittleness arising from its crystalline nature) is a tremendously strong material.

It is only exceeded by its cousin graphite, and then only is a very specialized sense. In a single plane of carbon atoms formed into graphite, the bond lengths are even shorter than in diamond, and thus (in that direction) graphite is the chemically strongest of all materials.
Of course, these single planes of graphite are only very weakly bonded with each other and slip readily, so that in a mechanical sense, graphite is a very weak material and slides so readily it can be used as a lubricant.
There's a real paradox for you: a material that is at the same time both the chemically strongest and one of the mechanically weakest!

Answer 4

Most have it wrong. Diamond is the HARDEST material in the world. i.e nothing will scratch it. It is not the STRONGEST.

The material with greatest tensile strength is a carbon microfibre based material called T1000, it has a tensile strength of 800ksi. The strongest natural substance is Spider's Silk with tensile Strength of about 200ksi. Diamond is nowhere near.

Basically this means if you had ropes made of diamond, silk and T1000, under increasing strain... the diamond would snap first followed by the silk then the T1000

Answer 5

The strongest material that you can buy today, with strength over 1 million pounds per square inch is a carbon fiber called T-1000.

In this regard, diamond (despite its brittleness arising from its crystalline nature) is a tremendously strong material. It is only exceeded by its cousin graphite, and then only is a very specialized sense. In a single plane of carbon atoms formed into graphite, the bond lengths are even shorter than in diamond, and thus (in that direction) graphite is the chemically strongest of all materials.

Answer 6

Love, silver fox. It's gotta be love. You know: that stuff that's made out of people when they look you in the eye and ask "Can you smell that?" and expect an answer that's true, discreet, polite and genuine without being slapped or otherwise assaulted and abused.

Yeah, my vote goes to LOVE being by far THE strongest material on this limited planet.

Merry Christmas, lover:)))

Answer 7

TITANIUM

A chemical element; in the periodic table it has the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It is a light, strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including resistance to sea water and chlorine) transition metal with a white-silvery-metallic color.

Titanium can be alloyed with other elements such as iron, aluminium, vanadium, molybdenum and others, to produce strong lightweight alloys for aerospace and other demanding applications.

The element occurs within a number of mineral deposits, principally rutile and ilmenite, which are widely distributed in the Earth's crust. There are two allotropic forms and five naturally occurring isotopes of this element; 46Ti through 50Ti with 48Ti being the most abundant (73.8%).

One of the most useful properties of the metal form is that it has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal (in its unalloyed condition, as strong as steel, but only 60% its density).

Hence the attraction of titanium for aeronautical and space missions, where saving on the payload saves on fuel.

Answer 8

i'd have to say that the strongest material on the planet has to be the human being.

it's the most versatile, the cleverst etc etc... nothing can beat the human, material-wise or otherwise.

even diamond and T-1000 and all your what-have-you's they're nothing on what is essentially just simple flesh and blood.

Answer 9

In many ways, diamond.

Its brittle compared to metals but its tensile strength is far higher and its the only material that could - in principle - be used to make orbital tethers or space elevators which are an interesting engineering project for future generations.

Answer 10

its a specific form of carbon
not a diamond as the currently hardest known natural form of carbon, but a fabric build from carbon molecules using nano-technology, as far as i read.

it was told that this newly developped structure would theoretically allow building a 'space elevator' like first described by Konstantin Ziolkowski in 1895.