hardness

Lorenz is the mission’s architect, responsible for figuring out the atmosphere’s turbulence, the hardness of the rocks for a sampling drill, and how much light will be available to allow Dragonfly’s sensors to navigate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

That exceptional hardness makes it ideal for industrial tools, but it also creates a major manufacturing challenge.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

That could make advanced tools less wasteful and more economical while preserving the extreme hardness required for industrial use.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The material combines tungsten carbide, which provides hardness, with cobalt, which acts as a metallic binder that holds the carbide particles together.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The heat and the dirt were bad, he said, and there was an added hardness to his life brought on by his weeks of “improper absence,” but Eb accepted it with humility.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

No doubt, then, the hardnesses and difficulties of any one's lot are part of the divine ordering for the best growth of the person's life.

From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller

To give myself to fasting, watching, and prayer, to suffer or abstain or avoid, in a word all the hardnesses of life seem when compared with Thy presence to have no irksomeness at all.

From Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages by William Ralph Inge

The hardnesses of line, gesture, and feature in the German example, though two centuries at least later, are, I think, equally notable.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin

Footnote 9: For table of hardnesses of different woods, see Sargent, Jesup Collection, pp.

From Wood and Forest by William Noyes