The plants are fleshy and stout, and in this particular resemble the Clitocybes, but the brittleness of the flesh, milky juice, and the marking of the cap, will easily distinguish them.
The more carbon contained in the steel, the harder the metal will be, and, of course, its brittleness increases with the hardness.
It does not affect the hardness, but increases the elastic limit and reduces the brittleness of the steel.
This form is used for engine cylinders and pistons, for brackets, covers, housings and at any point where its brittleness is not objectionable.
Normal Mauser Bullet] The second condition which influences the nature and degree of the deformities depends on the relative tenacity or brittleness peculiar to the metal employed in the manufacture of the mantles.
The brittleness of the wood is against it, in use as felloes, except for vehicles of the heaviest sort where large pieces are demanded.
Destroy the brittleness of red cedar and it would lose one of the chief qualities which make it the leading lead pencil wood of the world.
The botanical name is based on the brittleness of the twigs.
It does not possess the softness and brittleness which give so high value to the forest cedar of this country.
Tis a thing unpractised in our furnaces, and the reason is because of the exceeding brittleness thereof.
Thus Bergman's experiments led to the knowledge of the fact that cold-short iron owes its brittleness to a quantity of phosphorus which it contains.
Bergman's experiments to ascertain the cause of the brittleness of cold-short iron need not occupy much of our attention.
It has in part the unctuosity of bees' wax, and somewhat of the brittleness of resin.
The brittleness of unannealed glass by change of temperature is sometimes very great.
Why the brittleness and hardness of steel or glass should keep pace or be companions to each other may be difficult to conceive.
The hardening of steel makes it brittle and weak in proportion as it is hardened, but this brittleness and weakness are removed and the steel recovers the strength and toughness due to its soft state in proportion as it is lowered or tempered.
This additional hardness is also obtained without causing undue brittleness such as would be obtained by any increase of carbon.
Drawing to a temperature below the highest critical point (the temperature being governed by the results required) relieves the hardening strains set up by quenching, as well as the reducing of the hardness and brittleness of hardened steel.
By the peculiar lumpiness of the parts, the brittleness of the hair, more or less hair loss, and the history.
There is considerable variation in tension failures depending upon the toughness or the brittleness of the wood, the arrangement of the grain, defects, etc.
Defects and brittleness are revealed by impact better than by any other kind of test.
All this while a material invaluable for its transparency is redeemed from brittleness and corrodibility, and given a strength all but metallic; at the same time transmitting light with none of the usual subtraction from its beams.
For rock drills, cold chisels, milling and other tools it is necessary to use steel carefully tempered, so that brittleness is greatly reduced while considerable hardness and cutting power remain.
More granulations, or fewer, mean an increase of brittlenessin the steel.
This coarsening and the brittleness which accompanies it increase with the temperature to which the metal has been exposed.
But in most such cases, in spite of the annealing, this hardness is accompanied by a degree of brittleness too great for most purposes.
That strength is good and brittleness bad goes without saying; but here a word is needed about hardness.
Bessemer had no very wide knowledge of metallurgy, and after overcoming many stupendous difficulties he was greatly embarrassed by the brittleness or "redshortness" of his steel, which he did not know how to cure.
This brittleness has therefore in general to be mitigated or "tempered," unfortunately at the cost of losing part of the hardness proper, by reheating the hardened steel slightly, usually to between 200 deg.
The carbon-content of steel is rarely greater than this, lest the brittlenessbe excessive.
The brittleness and shortness of Pig-iron arises from the heterogeneous parts which it contains, and which could not be separated from it by the first fusion.
This Iron is not sulphurated, is naturally of a good quality, and its brittleness arises from its metalline parts not being sufficiently compacted together.
The punishment was mitigated owing to the circumstance of the brittleness of the bones.
This is due to brittleness of the bones in the old and their small size in the young.
In some parts, like the orbital plate of the frontal bone, the bone is very thin and brittle, but brittleness from any cause only mitigates, it does not excuse.
C) Test thebrittleness of the steel by bending it.
Beeswax, when melted, will mix well with either plaster or whiting, or with both, and will make a useful modelling composition, itsbrittleness being determined by its containing more or less plaster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brittleness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
