Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Black Panther's vibranium suit can store up and use the kinetic energy of objects which hit it, but is this possible in reality? The answer is yes and it's called the piezoelectric effect.

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00:39 How Black Panther's Suit Uses Vibranium
01:36 How the Piezoelectric Effect works
03:02 Piezoelectricity applied to Black Panther's suit


Links for more information

Why Captain America' Vibranium Shield Would be Lethal
youtube.com/watch?v=c1vTJGyVDSA

Vibranium
marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Vibranium
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibranium
scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89319/what-exactly-is-vibranium-able-or-not-able-to-absorb

The Piezoelectric Effect
explainthatstuff.com/piezoelectricity.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity


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