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Brittleness

Scope note

The property of being hard and rigid with little tensile strength, tending to break readily with a comparatively smooth fracture. RHDEL2

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300056193

Broader Terms used

mechanical properties

Equivalent Terms used

brittle

Created

13yrs ago

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