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     Spider silk is the strongest natural fibre known. The giant webs of a South Pacific spider are strong enough to be used as fishing nets. A scientist once stripped six feet of silk a minute from a spider in the American tropics and stopped after some 450 feet had been extracted. The spider was capable of producing still more!
