The importance of thermal damage can be seen by varying the size of the system while removing the same fraction of edges. A larger system will show damage sooner as there are more molecules at any given timestep with enough thermal energy to break. This is seen in Fig. , where the larger systems show an earlier first damage (but with smaller error bars thanks to the central limit theorem). The smaller error bars also show the flexibility effect more clearly, with the curve observed in Fig. being most clear for larger systems.