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What is the difference between high-tensile wire and barbwire?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What does the effectiveness of barbwire depend on?
 
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Answer to Question 1

High-tensile wire can be stretched almost twice as tightly as barbwire without breaking.

Answer to Question 2

The wire has to be stretched to the proper tightness.



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