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Carbon Fiber

Carbon Fiber is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, flexibly, and still strong at high temperatures. It can be considered as a plastic or as a metal, but it is the material of the future. However, nothing is perfect. To make carbon fiber carbon is bonded together from microscopic crystals into a yarn form, when it is put together to make the material we know as carbon fiber. This process is completely man made and is not found in nature, this means that it is very expensive. However, I think in the future it will become cheaper and it will be used in everything we see, touch, or use. Currently, it is used in racing, fast cars, planes, and military technology. The price now of some of the best carbon fiber in the world is 700 euros per kilo. Now to compare that to aluminum, which is 5 euros per kilo. That's quite a big difference. However, my theory stands, that if technology gets more advanced it will be cheaper to make carbon fiber and is will be used in everything.