Galactic Garbage Station

Chapter 216: Spider silk uses

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After driving home from the city, Su Jing called and ordered a set of the best fitness equipment.

When she saw the fitness equipment in the martial arts gym, Su Jing was a little excited. Although running, sit-ups, push-ups and other exercises can also exercise the body, if there is fitness equipment, the effect will definitely be better. In particular, punches and kicks can be practiced with a sandbag.

Of course, we are just ordering for the time being, and will not deliver it so quickly. After all, the building has not been renovated yet, and there is no place to put it after delivery. After it is built, it will be placed on the second floor. Anyway, the collection of things will not occupy the entire first floor, and a small gym will be more than enough.

In the early morning, as usual, Su Jing washed, played, ran, had breakfast, and then entered the Super Dimension Garbage Station. First, I looked at the cultivated seeds. The tomato, strawberry, and ginseng seeds planted in Lingshi slag have all sprouted and grown into seedlings. The tomato and strawberry seeds planted in ordinary soil have rotted away. As Su Jing expected, these tomatoes and strawberries from the legend of mortals cultivating immortals can only survive if they are cultivated in spirit stone slag. The ginseng planted in ordinary soil has not rotted, but it has not sprouted yet.

In addition, plants such as spiritual grass, willow, bamboo, golden camellia, and seven-leaf ginseng (in order to distinguish it from ordinary ginseng, Su Jing named the seven-leaf ginseng from the perfect world), etc., in Under the cultivation of Lingshi slag, it grows quickly and beautifully, and the man-eating vine blooms more flowers every day, allowing Su Jing to grow several more flowers every day.

"This spirit stone slag is indeed very suitable for planting."

Su Jing then sowed several precious plant seeds that she had prepared early in the morning in a pot of spirit stone slag, preparing to transplant them after they sprouted. The plan to make money by cultivating precious plants from Lingshi slag has officially begun.

The silkworms in the box seem to be similar to ordinary silkworms. They only eat and sleep. They are getting bigger day by day, but they should not be able to spin silk so quickly. It will take some time.

"Well, where's the spider?"

Su Jing looked into another box and saw that it was full of spider webs. She could only vaguely see a half-broken corpse of a giant spider. At first glance, eleven small spiders were not visible, but she used her mental strength to look for it. , and found that eleven of them were hiding inside, each one as big as a fist. Spiders have a cannibalistic nature, but firstly, the giant spiders have not finished eating, and there is still more food; secondly, after being tamed by Su Jing's spirit, the spiders get along quite harmoniously, so there is no case of cannibalism among these eleven.

Su Jing took a closer look. The spider webs that were added later in the box were obviously much thinner. They should have been spit by the little spiders. The web that the giant spider spit out at the beginning was invisible and might have been eaten by the little spiders. .

"I forgot to research it before. This spider web is so powerful. I wonder if it has any magical uses?"

Su Jing is used to picking up garbage, so she knows how to turn waste into treasure, not to mention that this spider web doesn't look like waste at first glance. His mind turned around, and the first thing he thought of was to wait for the eleven spiders to grow up and let them build webs to seal the entire inside of the Chrono-Space Garbage Station, so that little animals wouldn't accidentally sneak out. .

"Look online to see what spider webs can be used for."

Su Jing took out her mobile phone and searched online. She didn't know if she didn't search. She was shocked when she found out that the spider was full of treasures. Spiders are used as medicine to detoxify and reduce swelling. They are mainly used to treat sores, sores, wounds caused by venomous snakes and insects, strokes, crooked mouth, infantile convulsions, impotence and premature ejaculation. Spider venom has a unique effect on treating cerebral hemorrhage and epilepsy. It can block potassium ion and calcium ion channels in nerve cells and has a neuroprotective effect on stroke patients. Spider silk, an oral liquid that can be produced from spider webs, has significant effects on neurological diseases.

Of course, these effects are not direct and require layers of medical and pharmaceutical processing, so they are not very useful to Su Jing. However, spider silk also had some uses that interested him greatly.

According to research, the physical and chemical properties of spider silk have very obvious advantages compared with silk. In terms of mechanical strength, spider silk fiber is close to the strongest carbon fiber and high-strength synthetic fiber, but its toughness is significantly better than the above-mentioned ones. kind of fiber. Therefore, spider silk fiber has broad application prospects in the fields of national defense, military (body armor), construction and other fields.

According to research and experiments by scientists, a rope composed of spider silk is stronger and stronger than a stainless steel bar of the same thickness. It can withstand 5 times more weight than steel bars without breaking. Although some spider silk is as thin as human hair, don't underestimate its power and usefulness. In addition, spider silk is very elastic. A spider silk with a diameter of only one ten thousandth of a millimeter can be stretched more than twice before breaking.

However, natural spider silk mainly comes from web-making, and the yield is very low. Spiders are cannibalistic and cannot be cultured at high density like silkworms. Therefore, the yield of spider silk obtained from natural spiders is very limited. Ordinary spider silk is only about one micron. To obtain 1 pound of spider silk, more than 600,000 spiders must be captured. Therefore, the cost is to collect spiders, cut open their bellies, take out the silk liquid, and then use artificial methods to spin silk. Too big to be feasible.

In order to solve this problem, the National Army Biochemical Command Center in Massachusetts, USA, and Nexia Biotechnology Company in Quebec, Canada, extracted spider genes from spiders and implanted them into goats, so that the goat milk has spider silk protein, and then used special The spinning process spins the spider silk protein in goat milk into artificial genetic spider silk, which is also called biosteel. The artificial genetic spider silk produced by this method is 4 to 5 times stronger than steel, and is as soft and shiny as silk, and can be used to make high-grade body armor. Biosteel has a wide range of uses and can also be used to manufacture protective covers for combat aircraft, tanks, radars, satellites and other equipment.

"The little spider silk is so magical. It is still ordinary spider silk. What if these spider silks from the legends of mortals cultivating immortals are processed, what will be the effect?"

Su Jing was a little excited. Although the silk spun out by the giant spider was thicker than ordinary spider silk at first, it was only about one millimeter in diameter. However, Su Jing used more than two hundred kilograms of force to pull it out without any intention of breaking it. , it’s just that the entire net fell off.

Su Jing made a small spider web. These spider silks are only a few tenths of a millimeter thick. Spider silks are divided into horizontal threads and vertical threads. The horizontal threads are spiral threads that are sticky and are responsible for sticking to prey. The vertical threads cross The spiral threads are non-sticky but strong and serve as a support for the spider web.

Su Jing took a piece of horizontal silk. It felt sticky to the touch. She stretched, stretched, and stretched again with both hands. The spider silk was continuously stretched and thinned, but it didn't mean to break, until it was so thin that it could be seen. When he disappeared, it finally broke. I took another longitudinal wire and it felt a little silky to the touch, but when I stretched it, I clearly felt resistance. I put on my gloves and exerted all my strength. I used more than 100 kilograms of force, and my hands were a little red. Tear off.