The paper most likely to give you a paper cut, according to science

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Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.

ArticleBody:After a thorough investigation into the matter, three researchers at the Technical University of Denmark believe they have determined which paper varieties are the most likely to induce a dreaded paper cut. But instead of simply warning the public, the trio of physicists embraced the dark knowledge to create a single-use weapon capable of slicing into vegetables, fruit, and even some meat.

If the material is too thin, like tissue paper, then it bends under pressure. Thicker notecards and photo paper, however, means the surface area simply won’t cut through much. But the closer a paper is to 65 micrometers wide, the more primed it is for a cut. That fearsome measurement is most often seen in examples like sheets of newspaper or dot-matrix printer paper .

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