How Do Bulletproof Vests Work? 🎽

Morning gun lovers!

You know bulletproof vests?

These things:

How do they do that???

Enter chemist Stephanie Kwolek… 

(She’s Polish by the way)

Anyway, one day she was experimenting, trying to make a stronger form of the material nylon, just cause…

When she discovers a brand new material… kevlar!

It was somehow STRONG at rest.

But flowed like a liquid under pressure…

And when woven together it became stronger than… STEEL!

So…let's say you get shot, wearing this kevlar stuff…

The liquid-like chains in the kevlar mesh absorb the bullets energy by wiggling, spreading the force throughout the fabric… 

Then the strong atomic bonds in the fibers hold it all together and kinda catch the bullet!

Stopping it from piercing through.

Meaning… YOU SURVIVE!

The bulletproof vest was born!

Stay Cute,
Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

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