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Strength and density of 37 materials, from concrete to graphene

Graphene is listed at 130,500 MPa, the strength of a flawless sheet; the table gives best cases. Dyneema fiber reaches 3,600 MPa at just 0.97 g/cm³.

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What does this axis measure?
Strength and density of 37 materials, from concrete to graphene: 37 points, a scatter chart.
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The data: 37 points
Density (g/cm³)Tensile strength (MPa)
0.1166,900
0.1473
0.3578
0.925
0.9215
0.973,600
1.0541
1.1378
1.2453
1.311,400
1.42,900
1.4269
1.443,620
1.545,800
1.581,240
1.74275
1.754,300
1.797,000
2.09130,500
2.32
2.63,400
2.7310
2.74,840
2.81572
3.163,440
4.51344
4.811,250
7.81,590
7.85560
7.87365
7.872,500
7.8714,000
8505
8.22,450
8.281,250
8.55580
8.92220
Source
Wikipedia, Specific strength (CC BY-SA 4.0), table of examples; rows selected and reformatted by Unlabeled via the data sheets and papers cited in most of the table's rows (MatWeb and ASM, Goodfellow, AZoM, Toray, Toyobo, DSM, Science, Physical Review Letters); some rows cite nothing
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