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> Whats the tensile strength?

About 600 Kpsi. That works out to somewhere around 0.1 lb per strand.



Oh I was thinking that the thing was jacketed like... I just assumed wrong - youd still need to wrap it in superconductive carbon nanotubes to make it work. :-)




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