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  2. Ductility - Wikipedia

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    Malleability, a similar mechanical property, is characterized by a material's ability to deform plastically without failure under compressive stress. [8] [9] Historically, materials were considered malleable if they were amenable to forming by hammering or rolling. [10] Lead is an example of a material which is relatively malleable but not ductile.

  3. Problem of time - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, a special status is assigned to time in the sense that it is treated as a classical background parameter, external to the system itself.This special role is seen in the standard Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics: all measurements of observables are made at certain instants of time and probabilities are only assigned to such measurements.

  4. List of materials properties - Wikipedia

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    A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.

  5. Physical property - Wikipedia

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    An intensive property does not depend on the size or extent of the system, nor on the amount of matter in the object, while an extensive property shows an additive relationship. These classifications are in general only valid in cases when smaller subdivisions of the sample do not interact in some physical or chemical process when combined.

  6. Elasticity (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed. Solid objects will deform when adequate loads are applied to them; if the material is elastic, the object will return to its initial shape and size after ...

  7. Intrinsic and extrinsic properties - Wikipedia

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    For example, mass is an intrinsic property of any physical object, whereas weight is an extrinsic property that depends on the strength of the gravitational field in which the object is placed. Applications in science and engineering

  8. Strengthening mechanisms of materials - Wikipedia

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    For example, silicone-polyurethane IPNs show increased tear and flexural strength over base silicone networks, while preserving the high elastic recovery of the silicone network at high strains. [12] Increased stiffness can also be achieved by pre-straining polymer networks and then sequentially forming a secondary network within the strained ...

  9. Coefficient of restitution - Wikipedia

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    The COR is a property of a pair of objects in a collision, not a single object. If a given object collides with two different objects, each collision has its own COR. When a single object is described as having a given coefficient of restitution, as if it were an intrinsic property without reference to a second object, some assumptions have been made – for example that the collision is with ...