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Others worried about the tensile strength of all that glass.

A high-tensile copper clasp and heavy-duty buckle keep the dog secure.

It knocks the wind out of you even before it makes you think—though it does makes you think, too, especially about the tensile fierceness of refusing victimhood.

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Its average length is about twenty inches, and its tensile strength is superior to that of cotton.

It lacks the tensile strength and elasticity, and is of higher specific gravity than true silk.

What is very high tensile strength in boiler iron apt to go with?

In the first place, it gives the steel a greater tensile strength.

Nickel is about ten per cent heavier than steel, and has a tensile strength of 90,000 pounds per square inch.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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