hardness
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Grain growth occurs when the microscopic crystals inside a material become larger, which can change its hardness and mechanical performance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
WC-Co cemented carbides are widely used in applications that demand extreme hardness and resistance to wear, including cutting tools, drills, machining equipment, and construction tools.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Researchers classify them according to three main features: hardness, the way they respond to strain, and the structure formed by ions and proteins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
It is a pas de deux of contrasts—roughness and polish, hardness and softness, danger and safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
There was that new hardness in his stomach.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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
Her patient, gentle, tender care had impressed him with reverence; he was magnetized by her sphere of unselfishness, forgiveness and goodness, and some of the hardnesses of his own nature were melted away.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Footnote 9: For table of hardnesses of different woods, see Sargent, Jesup Collection, pp.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
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Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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