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
The researchers showed that their method preserves the same computational hardness criteria associated with RCS, meaning the problem remains extremely difficult for classical computers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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
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
And he could feel a shell of hardness drawing over him.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
She had small hardnesses and little vulgarities of manner that drove him mad.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by J. André Castaigne
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 minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
From Essays on Paul Bourget by Mark Twain
Let us give the name of 'sense-data' to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on.
From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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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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