it is the material's resistance to degradation from the vacuum itself.
Rare materials degrade in vacuum at all. Some closed-cavities styrofoam, and something like with gas inside. Few materials that have to contain liquid and volatile substances to keep specific properties like decorative water-keeping jelly balls for flowerpots. Hardly you will find anything in that list that somebody will ever choose for space suit.
UV light and temperatures range are magnitude orders more important in question of material degradation in space, but they are not very different from those on Earth surface.
Vaccum is absolutely nothing, in literal and metaphoric sense for materials. It is not even in the top 10 things harmful for human without any protection. Here on Earth surface we have much more dangerous things without any space wonders.
That attempts to use vacuum as some scarecrow for ignorant audience are just stupid.
Only thing that is interesting to explore about space vacuum is who and for what purpose pictured space vacuum as something instantly deadly and severely destructive in all that mass media production, when all real properties of vacuum was perfectly known for arond two centuries.
Of course most RTV sealers will lose mass, regardless of vacuum or normal pressure, because thinner is added to most Room-Temperature Vulcanisation sealers to make their application easier and provide better adhesion. Thinner will diffuse to the surface and evapourate with time, faster in vacuum or at high temperatures, as any volatile liquids do.
This mass loss will not anyhow harm RTV sealer at all. But it could contaminate vacuum in some sensitive equipment and even damage sensors or poison some ion trap or whatever inside vacuum chamber sealed with this sealer. For such purposes thiinnerless 2k RTV sealers manufactured. But they are harder to apply and more expensive. There is no any sense to use them for sealing large surfaces for space, because nobody cares about contaminating outer space with few grams of thinner molecules.
Funny, you already tried to push exactly same crap here earlier. Somebody decided that everybody forgot about it and it is time for next round of pushing narrative?
The weak point is not the mechanical pressure - it is the material's resistance to degradation from the vacuum itself.
Rare materials degrade in vacuum at all. Some closed-cavities styrofoam, and something like with gas inside. Few materials that have to contain liquid and volatile substances to keep specific properties like decorative water-keeping jelly balls for flowerpots. Hardly you will find anything in that list that somebody will ever choose for space suit.
UV light and temperatures range are magnitude orders more important in question of material degradation in space, but they are not very different from those on Earth surface.
Vaccum is absolutely nothing, in literal and metaphoric sense for materials. It is not even in the top 10 things harmful for human without any protection. Here on Earth surface we have much more dangerous things without any space wonders.
That attempts to use vacuum as some scarecrow for ignorant audience are just stupid.
Only thing that is interesting to explore about space vacuum is who and for what purpose pictured space vacuum as something instantly deadly and severely destructive in all that mass media production, when all real properties of vacuum was perfectly known for arond two centuries.
According to NASA's own documents, the RTV used to seal the windows of the spacecraft loses mass under only 10^-6 tor vacuum:
https://conspiracies.win/p/16birLvU9a/nasa-did-not-test-the-seals-on-t/c/
Of course most RTV sealers will lose mass, regardless of vacuum or normal pressure, because thinner is added to most Room-Temperature Vulcanisation sealers to make their application easier and provide better adhesion. Thinner will diffuse to the surface and evapourate with time, faster in vacuum or at high temperatures, as any volatile liquids do.
This mass loss will not anyhow harm RTV sealer at all. But it could contaminate vacuum in some sensitive equipment and even damage sensors or poison some ion trap or whatever inside vacuum chamber sealed with this sealer. For such purposes thiinnerless 2k RTV sealers manufactured. But they are harder to apply and more expensive. There is no any sense to use them for sealing large surfaces for space, because nobody cares about contaminating outer space with few grams of thinner molecules.
Funny, you already tried to push exactly same crap here earlier. Somebody decided that everybody forgot about it and it is time for next round of pushing narrative?