hardness
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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
That exceptional hardness makes it ideal for industrial tools, but it also creates a major manufacturing challenge.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Researchers classify them according to three main features: hardness, the way they respond to strain, and the structure formed by ions and proteins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
I think I’d tried to hide that hardness from him because I’d wanted him to like me.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Footnote 9: For table of hardnesses of different woods, see Sargent, Jesup Collection, pp.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
To give myself to fasting, watching, and prayer, to suffer or abstain or avoid, in a word all the hardnesses of life seem when compared with Thy presence to have no irksomeness at all.
From Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages by William Ralph Inge
She had small hardnesses and little vulgarities of manner that drove him mad.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by J. André Castaigne
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
Vocabulary lists containing hardness
Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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