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Which lightweight material is famous for its strength?

material

[muh-teer-ee-uhl] / məˈtɪər i əl /






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The raw material for this enterprise is a 2012 tweet by El-Sayed’s half-sister describing a conversation with their mother about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the early 1970s.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

These bars can channel material toward the inner regions, providing fuel for intense episodes of star formation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

“This means material price increases are still required across the broader industry, which should provide an additional compounding layer of profitable growth as pricing turns,” Panmure says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

As the year came to a close, FBI agent Michelle Ball felt she had enough material to move forward.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Schulwerk uses the native language, sounds, timbres, rhythms, melodies, and tonal material surrounding the child, particularly in its folk music repertoire.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The analysts expect charges related to scrapping work-in-process materials and workforce restructuring to weigh on the South Korean industrial-film maker’s near-term earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Builders are facing higher costs too, for construction loans, building materials and diesel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

These materials are essential to many magnetic memory technologies used today.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The discovery, known as altermagnetism, has revealed a third fundamental category of collinear magnetism and opened new possibilities for quantum materials, advanced electronics, and future computing technologies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

On their picnic table, he’d already laid out all our materials and drawn up detailed, realistic diagrams for Twig’s top two designs.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller


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