Gap Fill - Shaving - Level 2

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The researchers used to look at how hair damages razor blades. They got a close-up of what happens when the blade cuts a . One cause of damage is because a hair can make a chip on the of a blade. This chip gets bigger as it cuts more hair. After more shaving, the blade loses its to cut cleanly. A researcher said he wanted to make stronger. He said it was interesting that, "if you cut something very , like human hair, with very hard, like steel, the hard material would fail." He called this "an important engineering ".

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