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Ductility   Listen
noun
Ductility  n.  
1.
The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
2.
Tractableness; pliableness.





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"Ductility" Quotes from Famous Books



... eminently displayed, that all attempts at imitation have only showed the infinite superiority of the original to the copy. I need not appeal to the gilding upon those mummies so fresh in its lustre; to the stained silk of them, so vivid in its colours after a lapse of 3000 years; to the ductility and malleability of glass, discovered by an artist of Rome in the days of Tiberius, but instantly lost by the immediate murder of the man under the orders of the emperor, and just now boasted vainly to be re-discovered by the wildly eccentric, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 • Various


Words linked to "Ductility" :   ductileness, ductile, malleability


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