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
Their approach could reduce waste and lower production costs while preserving the strength and hardness that make the material so useful.
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
But after everything that’s happened, she realizes that her and Garrett’s survival requires the kind of aggressive hardness she usually reserves for the soccer field.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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
The hardnesses of line, gesture, and feature in the German example, though two centuries at least later, are, I think, equally notable.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
She had her full share of difficulties, hardnesses, disappointments, and physical weakness; but, whatever her feelings were, she rose above them, and went on with her work.
From The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" by Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter
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
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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