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noun

Ductility n.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Tractableness; pliableness.

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Etymology of 'Ductility'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ductility" Quotes from Famous Books

... mixture of silex or flint with a large proportion, usually about one fourth, of alumina, or argil; but in common language, any earth which possesses sufficient ductility, when kneaded up with water, to be fashioned like paste by the hand, or by the potter's lathe, is called a CLAY; and such clays vary greatly in their composition, and are, in general, nothing more than mud derived from the ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... general history to begin, in a [193] golden age, but in an age, so to speak, of real gold, the period of those first twisters and hammerers of the precious metals—men who had already discovered the flexibility of silver and the ductility of gold, the capacity of both for infinite delicacy of handling, and who enjoyed, with complete freshness, a sense of beauty and fitness in their work—a period of which that flower of gold on a silver stalk, ...

— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

Words linked to "Ductility" : ductile, ductileness, malleability