ductile

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Hina and Hodaka have heart-shaped faces with huge gemstone eyes, small noses and tiny, ductile mouths that open wide and comically wider.

From New York Times

It’s no wonder, then, that on Sahman’s island of Sulawesi, companies have opened several mines in the past 15 years to feed the global market for stainless steel — made ductile and tough with nickel.

From Washington Post

At a lower impact speed or temperatures above the ductile to brittle phase transition, the rivets would’ve deformed before failing.

From Scientific American

A planet with ductile rocks right up to its surface could still have a thick lithosphere, he says, because lithospheric thickness is determined by how vigorously a world’s underlying mantle is churning.

From Scientific American

New pipes will be made of a more durable, graphite-rich cast iron known as ductile iron.

From New York Times