ductile

[ US /ˈdəktəɫ/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌkta‍ɪl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
    pliant molten glass
    ductile copper
    they soaked the leather to made it pliable
    made of highly tensile steel alloy
    malleable metals such as gold
  2. easily influenced
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How To Use ductile In A Sentence

  • The first glass, meantime, rendered once more ductile by heat, was passed to another man upon another bench, who, keeping up all the while the rotatory motion necessary to preserve the form of the softened material, smoothed it with the battledoor, gauged it with the compasses, coaxed it with the sugar-tongs, and finally trimmed it around the top with his scissors as easily as if it had been of paper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • Dual-phase steels, which feature hard martensite particles in a soft ductile ferrite matrix are also highly formable.
  • Ductile fabrics and tectonic boundaries in the southern part of the Cine massif outline a large-scale monocline, the tectonic significance of which is not known.
  • These steels remain ductile at the lowest resting temperatures.
  • The process is readily adaptable to joining ductile metals.
  • It indicates that mylonite in the root zone of nappe in the southern edge of Jiuling is a product resulted from ductile deformation controlled by dislocation in the deep structural level.
  • Phosphor bronze strip is the most widely used ductile material of copper alloys at present.
  • Tantalum is a very hard, malleable, ductile metal with a silvery bluish color when unpolished, but a bright silvery color when polished.
  • Some are ductile and others brittle since the transition temperature is near room temperature.
  • That can actually trigger a phenomenon we know as ductile failure," Dr Fusseis said. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
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