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Fig. 4. Stress-strain curves of the silk samples as labelled in Fig. 2. The number adjacent to each curve identifies each sample. The range of tensile properties spanned by naturally spun (NS) fibres is shaded, and an example of a characteristic forcibly silked fibre retrieved from an unanaesthetized spider is also shown (FS fibre).





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