hardness

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

The laser-leading method avoided some of those problems but initially struggled to maintain the required hardness.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

WC-Co cemented carbides are widely used in applications that demand extreme hardness and resistance to wear, including cutting tools, drills, machining equipment, and construction tools.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

It is a pas de deux of contrasts—roughness and polish, hardness and softness, danger and safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

When I laid my foot on the middle cross bench, its hardness had an invigorating effect on me, as if I had just stepped on solid ground.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Nevertheless the excitement of it had thrilled and broken up the hardnesses of her own nature.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

The rest, though they are not free from certain hardnesses, have a pathos and greatness in their simplicity, sufficient to endear the legitimate Sonnet to every Reader of just taste.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward