Like in PSI? What's the hardest thing we can break?
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Like in PSI? What's the hardest thing we can break?
Baby bones.
According to this article the average biting force of the human jaw is 162 PSI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marquis de Sade
Found a list in Newton, has it as:
human 680
silky shark 889
spotted hyena 4500
Am. alligator 13300
There's a big difference between bite strength in Newtons and psi, mind. One is force, the other is pressure (force per unit area). Hardness is another issue entirely: force and pressure, if they're measured directly, will be measured using something relatively soft so it doesn't damage the teeth. It doesn't matter if you can theoretically bite hard enough to crack a rock if your teeth will shatter first.
Is there any particular reason you ask?
Yeah I think they use several indices as to penetration etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
Once saw a documentary with a guy and a mako shark, testing ultrafine mail armour, so the shark could bite, but not penetrate the underlying surface, since the teeth would be stopped by the mail, the sharks bite is rendered reasonably annoying, nothing more.
Sharks ofcourse bypass the rock/teeth problem by just growing new ones.
Stupid, lucky sharks. I want new teeth. :disgust:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurius
We can exert 4 tons of force in our bite. Or something like that
Ive seen people chew through kokonuts(was on a docu though, the dude did not did that one the first try haha)
:shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
No.