ductile
Germanium adds ductility - the ability to stretch without breaking.
Gold is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewellery, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties.
Gold is also used in electrical contacts because of its resistance to corrosion, electrical conductivity, ductility and lack of toxicity.
Copper, by virtue of its inherent high conductivity, ductility and strength, has always been the ideal material for conducting electricity.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flexible, loose and yielding
adrift
bendable
bendy
ductile
elastic
jointed
lax
limply
limpness
loose-fitting
ragdoll
relax
rubbery
semi-flexible
slacken
uncompressed
unconstricted
unstayed
unstuck
yielding

ductility | American Dictionary

ductility
noun[ U ]
us/dʌkˈtɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
chemistry
the ability of a substance such as a metal to be stretched or shaped without breaking

Examples of ductility

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Hopefully, by comparing their "ductility and elastic limit "would give the most suitable material.
As a result of this, the brittle range for the steel increases whilst ductility range is decreased.
I have chosen copper as the main conductor because it is cheap at the moment and have good conductivity and ductility.
A brittle material is one with very low ductility.
The 1998 batch generally has higher values for yield points and tensile strength and ductility does not appear very consistent between the years.
The impact energy generally decreases with decreasing temperature as the yield strength increases and the ductility decreases.
The use of high temperatures for tempering increases ductility and impact strength of the steel but reduces its tensile strength and hardness.
The lattice forms into a body centered cubic structure of equilibrium at "alpha" (phase diagram not available) and as a result the ductility increases.
Tempered steel is harder and stronger than the normalised steel, but has less ductility.
Again this is because, higher tempering temperature gives more pearlite/ferrite that in turn gives greater ductility and resistance to fracture.
To regain some ductility the steel is reheated to a temperature in the range of 200 to 600c.
The differences between the averages for ductility between the two years appear to be very small.
A graph was shown to indicate the ductility of materials against the corrosion resistance in fresh water.
However, this increased hardness comes at the expense of ductility.
Ductility is the ability of a material to sustain large amounts of plastic deformation.
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