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Define "stronger"

• jacquesm 9y ago
  The article is pretty confused about what they mean by stronger, on the one hand they use language that suggests tensile strength but they then go on to illustrate some non-quantitative measure by talking about penetration by pellets and deformation in collision like situations.
• icegreentea2 9y ago
  The paper is behind a pay wall, but their figures and extended data stuff is free to view here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476#extended-data https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476#extended-data They say that their ultimate tensile strength of their material is ~600 MPa. Steel ranges from 250-2500 MPa.
• IshKebab 9y ago
  Typically it means UTS (Ultimate Tensile Strength), except in articles where "X is stronger than Y" when it means the weakest property of Y.