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This is made of balsa wood. If the final result has remotely similar properties to balsa, it is not going to be able to come anywhere near cutting you - balsa's
by egypturnash 6y ago
This is made of balsa wood. If the final result has remotely similar properties to balsa, it is not going to be able to come anywhere near cutting you - balsa's a very soft wood.
Of course if the final result has remotely similar properties to balsa it would also mean that you could just about break it with a hard enough sneeze. Balsa's a very soft wood.
(Though now that I look at the actual abstract it's probably stronger than the chunks of balsa wood I learnt to carve as a kid: "high toughness (3.03 MJ m-3) that is 3 orders of magnitude higher than standard glass (0.003 MJ m-3)" - so maybe you could indeed do some serious damage with shards of clear balsa.)