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brittle INDUST

Brittle fracture INDUST

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brittle iron METAL

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Over time, this constant flexing causes the brittle oil paint to crack.
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Blue gold is more brittle and therefore more difficult to work with when making jewelry.
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When exposed to water or sweat and improperly dried, the fabric would become brittle and seams would fail significantly with little stress.
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Unalloyed zinc is too brittle for these kinds of manufacturing processes.
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A brittle material will break before it yields.
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In particular, brittle materials can be toughened by including compressive residual stress, as in the case for toughened glass and pre-stressed concrete.
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Cast iron is a hard brittle material that is difficult to work, whereas steel is malleable, relatively easily formed and a versatile material.
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All these materials are hard, brittle, dark-gray solids with the hardness increasing with the boron content.
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Further topics include acoustic emission from cracks developing in brittle solids, laser generation of sound in solids, localised vibrations propagating along edges of elastic wedges.
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This species has an erect caespitose growth form, and is sometimes referred to as the brittle lichen.
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