hardness
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With those adjustments, the team successfully produced cemented carbide through AM without sacrificing its hardness.
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
The experiments showed that this additive manufacturing strategy can preserve the hardness and mechanical strength typically achieved through conventional manufacturing methods.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Materials with this level of hardness are among the toughest used in industrial applications and rank just below superhard materials such as sapphire and diamond.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
“I can’t believe you hid this from me for all these years,” she says with an unfamiliar hardness in her voice.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
She had small hardnesses and little vulgarities of manner that drove him mad.
From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by J. André Castaigne
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 minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
From Essays on Paul Bourget by Mark Twain
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
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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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