spider silk

Summary

spider silk ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (665 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• spider silk's image is recorded as Seda-de-araña.jpg^[2].
• spider silk's subclass of is recorded as secretion or excretion^[3].
• spider silk's subclass of is recorded as animal fiber^[4].
• spider silk's subclass of is recorded as polyamide^[5].
• spider silk's Commons category is recorded as Spider silk^[6].
• spider silk's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0k_ln^[7].
• spider silk's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300191700^[8].
• spider silk's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[9].
• spider silk's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10^[10].
• spider silk's natural product of taxon is recorded as Araneae^[11].
• spider silk's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03695831n^[12].
• spider silk's Quora topic ID is recorded as Spider-Silk^[13].
• spider silk's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20631637^[14].
• spider silk's Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID is recorded as 10476^[15].
• spider silk's tensile modulus of elasticity is recorded as {'unit': 'Q53448922', 'amount': '+25'}^[16].
• spider silk's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776847223^[17].
• spider silk's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2909848163^[18].
• spider silk's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03063937-n^[19].
• spider silk's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03063809-n^[20].
• spider silk's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09500167-n^[21].
• spider silk's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2776847223^[22].
• spider silk's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/spider-silk^[23].
• spider silk's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as pautina-56d7bb^[24].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for spider silk include The Spider's Thread^[25], a literary work^[26], written by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa^[27].

Why It Matters

spider silk ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (665 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]

Entities named for it include The Spider's Thread^[25], a literary work^[26], written by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa^[27].