hardness
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The researchers attribute the added strength to the interaction between zeolite's alumina-silicate structure and the hardness of bamboo biochar.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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 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 laser-leading method avoided some of those problems but initially struggled to maintain the required hardness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The hardness had returned, “Not that she understood! Who was she?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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
She had small hardnesses and little vulgarities of manner that drove him mad.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by J. André Castaigne
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
Vocabulary lists containing hardness
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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