ive heard that a spider web is stronger than steel. is this true?

Answer 1

it is the strongest matrial known to man but we can not produce it and spider's don't make it big anothe for us to produce anything
maybe somday we will be able to duplicate the compounds

Answer 2

As the number of insects increases during the warmer months, so does the number of their predators. Spiders are members of the arachnid family which also includes animals such as ticks, scorpions and mites. There are at least 40,000 different kinds of spiders. Not all spiders spin webs, but most of them do. Their webs are made out of silk which originates from special glands in the spider's abdomen. The only manmade material which even comes close to being as strong as spider silk is steel. In fact, for an equivalent weight, the strongest spider silk has a tensile strength that is five times greater than steel. Tensile strength is the amount of longitudinal stress that a substance can tolerate without being torn apart (a measure of how hard can you pull on a string before it breaks).

taken from: http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/071697.html

Answer 3

If that were true, we would all hire spiders to build our buildings!

What they mean is that pound for pound it is stronger than steel. But it would be flexible and not suitable for many structures, despite its strength. And milking a spider takes really tiny hands, and you end up with a really irritated spider if they are cold!

Answer 4

No.
Rupture strength for spider web is about 3000 MPa
For high-strength steel wire may be more 6000 MPa.
Journalists are not competent in technic and they entangle strength-to-weight ratio and absolute strength.
Spider web has strength-to-weight ratio more than steel wire, but absolute strength is less.

Answer 5

NO