"109.01 Synergy alone explains metals increasing their strengths. All alloys are synergetic. Chrome-nickel-steel has an extraordinary total behavior. In fact, it is the high cohesive strength and structural stability of chrome-nickel-steel at enormous temperatures that has made possible the jet engine."
Another example of "synergy" used by R. Buckminster Fuller is that of salt or NaCl. One constituent element is a metal, the other a poisonous gas. The behavior together is wholly unpredictable from the behavior of the component parts - table salt.
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Edgar Zapata, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Systems Engineering Office