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Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by holuwajobar(m): 2:29pm On Feb 24, 2017 |
First off, snails have teeth. The average garden snail has over 14,000 of them, which are arranged in rows on their tongue. The typical snail tongue, called a radula, might have 120 rows of 100, although some species may have more than 20,000 teeth.But let’s talk about the ones in water. The limpet, an aquatic snail that feeds by scraping algae off of rocks, has been found to have teeth that exceed the tensile strength of spider silk, Kevlar, and titanium.Researchers measured that the amount of force required to break the millimeter long teeth is about the same pressure that it takes to turn carbon into diamond in the Earth’s crust ( about 5 gigapascals (GPa) – some five times greater than most spider silk. ) The authors of the study, which appears at the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, note:“[Our] observations highlight an absolute material tensile strength that is the highest recorded for a biological material, outperforming the high strength of spider silk currently considered to be the strongest natural material, and approaching values comparable to those of the strongest man-made fibres.” |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by Jabioro: 2:41pm On Feb 24, 2017 |
Snail snail snail!!! How big is snail that it would carry such.. even elephant does not.. this theory get as e be 1 Like |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by Vickiweezy(m): 3:18pm On Feb 24, 2017 |
Jabioro: Abeg help me reason this OP. E be like him take suay and palm oil. Him no even show the pic of the teeth. |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by holuwajobar(m): 3:31pm On Feb 24, 2017 |
Vickiweezy:next time u use ur brain to make some research on google abt it |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by Dosmay(m): 6:48pm On Feb 24, 2017 |
holuwajobar: lol. o.p don vex o |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by holuwajobar(m): 6:58pm On Feb 24, 2017 |
Dosmay:lol...dnt mind d guy...he tink say he fit use me shine |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by Vickiweezy(m): 1:19am On Feb 25, 2017 |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by holuwajobar(m): 7:29am On Feb 25, 2017 |
Vickiweezy:lol...wu z stupid btw me n u......instead u shuld go n find out......fool |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by Vickiweezy(m): 8:02am On Feb 25, 2017 |
holuwajobar: And yet you still ask who's stupid? Stupid. You're always gon be Stupid AF. It's your destiny. Don't quote me again. |
Re: Do You Know That Snail Have Up To 14 Thousand Teeth? by holuwajobar(m): 11:18am On Feb 25, 2017 |
Vickiweezy:lol.... Fortune teller..... |
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