Which outcome was observed when tightly wound silk threads encountered extreme humidity spikes during 18th-century French sericulture?

💡 Explanation

Reduced tensile strength emerged because silk fibroin undergoes hydrolysis; high humidity increases the rate of hydrolytic reactions. This degradation leads to breaking of peptide bonds, therefore tensile strength drops, rather than increased dye uptake or dissolution under ambient conditions.

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