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Hardened wood knives

2021-10-21 17:33:55.776202+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Scientists create a wooden knife three times sharper than a steel blade

Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.09.020

Via https://researchbuzz.me/

[ related topics: Cool Science Current Events Gambling Woodworking ]

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#Comment Re: Hardened wood knives made: 2021-10-22 14:17:59.653804+02 by: DaveP [edit history]

Also at Ars.

Basically they dissolve the lignin, then compress the remaining cellulose. Spiffy!

Note that putting in a naked URL on an iPad, gets the url line-broken at a hyphen, leading to a busted URL. Not sure what’s deciding to break the line, but making a link to a word works fine.

#Comment Re: Hardened wood knives made: 2021-10-22 18:24:18.73272+02 by: Dan Lyke

Ugh, yeah, I've fought the wrapping and browser crap before, I thought I got all of the various hints to the browsers right, but Apple somehow always finds a way to break HTML.

#Comment Re: Hardened wood knives made: 2021-10-25 14:09:38.934283+02 by: DaveP

Also at Soylent News

Don’t sweat the wrapping on iOS Safari unless you really want to. I’m completely capable of doing links here in the comments I make, and I’m probably one of the few using iOS exclusively.

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