Sunday, October 25, 2020

FASCINATING FACTS : THE SECRETS OF LIFE’S TOUGHEST MATERIAL : PEARL


 

THE SECRETS OF LIFE’S TOUGHEST MATERIAL

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One of the toughest materials known to science is made not by humans, but by nature... and it's inside of oysters.

 

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Sources:

https://news.umich.edu/cracking-the-m...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4142...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

https://ceramics.org/wp-content/uploa...

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/matse...

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2008/11/25...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li...

http://ams.cstam.org.cn/article/2018/...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/19/download...

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

 

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