Why is packing tape nearly impossible to tear when intact, but easily shreds if you cut the slightest nick into it?

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Why is packing tape nearly impossible to tear when intact, but easily shreds if you cut the slightest nick into it?

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It’s to do the availability of electrons with valence matrix. Once you have disturbed the matrix structure it results in a weakness in the inelastic substructure caused by subvalent bond alignment differentials.

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