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Materials: 1. Wood glue 2. Super glue 3. Hot glue 4. Gorilla Glue 5. Popsicle Sticks 6. Spring Scale 7. Drill 8.

Bucket 9. Sand Procedure: 1. Squirt 5mL of each kind of glue into different cups. 2. Spread the glue evenly across half of one side of a popsicle stick. 3. Place a second popsicle stick over the glue, so that it overlaps half of the stick. 4. Allow glue to dry for 20 min. 5. Drill a small hole in both ends of the popsicle sticks. 6. Attach an empty bucket to a spring scale and suspend the spring scale from one of the drilled holes. 7. Attach the opposite drilled hole to a vertical hook, to hold it up. 8. Add sand to the buckets until it breaks and keep note of what force the spring scale was at. 9. Repeat steps 2-8 for every kind of glue. 10. Analyze the data. Whichever glue held the heaviest load is the strongest glue.

Stress Testing in the real world: Computer engineers must develop processors that will hold up. Companies like Intel and AMD put their processors under extreme conditions, such as operation under intense heat to ensure they will not fail, and overclocking them with intense calculations to analyze how they age. They also count the number of errors the processor makes. Processors have the lowest failure rate out of any other computer component.

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