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Old 12-12-2009, 12:58 AM   #6
xoxoxoBruce
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They've been working on synthetic spider silk, for a very long time, and last I read, not making much progress. It's devilishly complicated, and spiders produce something like 6 or 8 different types of silk, for different applications.

Oh, and the spider turning the liquid into thread is a mechanical, not chemical, process.
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