adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A malleable metal can be beaten into a sheet whereas a ductile metal can be drawn out into a wire.
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For the more exacting uses, such as machinery, we generally tend to choose ductile metals.
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Glass that is near room temperature is a familiar brittle material, and modeling clay is obviously ductile .
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Many metals are malleable and ductile .
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Rapid cooling between 22 and 20Myr reflects both uplift during ductile phases of extensional deformation and ambient cooling of the granitic intrusions.
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The amount of shearing or elongation which a ductile material will withstand varies enormously between different metals and alloys.
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This is what makes ductile metals so safe and tough and so popular.
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Whether it is of constant length or is ductile will affect both the area and the shape.