"It is a brittle material.
Malleable metal had several advantages over a brittle material, such as rock or bone or antler.
In a hard, brittle material, toughness is low, while in a strong, ductile metal it is high.
Here, she never looked comfortable, undone by nerves, brittle material and the wattage of those around her.
His tetchy, fearful characters and their brittle, material lives make me glad to be a good Catholic boy, in a way that Waugh's soulful toffs never did.
Lissoirs could not be made from a hard and brittle material like stone, because it would damage the leather and risk snapping in the user's hand.
Titanium, although a relatively brittle material, has high strength-to-weight properties at operating temperatures as high as 480 °C (900 °F).
With glass, an extremely brittle material, having a KIc value of 1, all other materials can be assigned values relative to that of glass.
Nonetheless, ceramic remains a brittle material and one that is susceptible to dramatic and catastrophic damage by impact or stress loading beyond the material's strength.
When working stone, a brittle material that responds to a sharp tool point by breaking into small chips, the sculptor strikes many light blows to remove material.
Of particular concern in engineering structures is the prevention of sudden, complete failure, as in the fracture of a brittle material.
