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Originally Posted by Hayabusa View Post
It takes approximately 7 pounds of pressure to break a human clavicle. Crazy little things. They should have made them stronger since so many break so easily.
That's ridiculous!!! You can put 7 lbs of force on your clavicle with one hand while sitting in a chair.

Let me do some quick research.....

Look here:

Experimental and computational investigation of human clavicle resp... - PubMed - NCBI

The test to failure shows the average clavicle to break at an average maximum force of 1159+/-133 N. That would be 261 lbs +/- 30 lbs.

That makes much more sense.
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