What is a carbon nanotube? It's a tube made out of graphite molecules. A sheet of graphite molecules looks like a layer of hexagons. If you were to roll that sheet into a tube, you'd end up with a carbon nanotube. Nanotubes exhibit different qualities depending upon the direction you choose to roll the tube. Scientists say that if you roll it correctly, you'd end up with a material several times stronger and lighter than steel. Other uses for nanotubes include everything from building semiconductors to developing a suit that theoretically would allow you to climb up the side of a building like Spider-Man.
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