To overcome this brittleness they are frequently deposited as thin films on other, more flexible, materials.
But the fact that geographic diversification failed so miserably despite the relative concentration of the worst housing bust effects suggests that the bigger problem with mortgage lending isn't the responsiveness to local conditions, but rather the general brittleness of the system as a whole.
For years, engineers have sought a way to create chips that combine silicon with GaAs, thus reducing both cost (by employing GaAs only in places where it is needed) and brittleness (by backing it with more supple silicon).
And when bonded with a synthetic-diamond or carbon coating, silicon's only real drawback, brittleness, can also be overcome.But watchmakers are not simply using silicon as a metal substitute.
Your correspondent's ears gradually learned to accept as normal the brilliance and clarity (some call it brittleness) of digital sound.Occasionally, he still plays a boxed set of LP records called "Images of Elgar" inherited from a relative.
They should do this before stability suddenly turns to brittleness.
This is clearly problematic).For their part, financial economists often made heroic assumptions for the sake of tractability that added a brittleness to their models which proceeded to break amid times of trouble.
They included prolonged pre-trial detention for 80% of all prisoners in Haitian jails; institutional "brittleness" on account of long-delayed elections to the Senate and local bodies; rising homicide rates; and a depressing predilection for public lynching, which indicates little confidence in the justice system.
It might not take much a powerful earthquake ineptly handled, growing protests by the dispossessed or, especially, a bungled succession for the brittleness of these nasty, brutish and long regimes to show.
It causes brittleness of solidified steel especially in large pieces, such as heavy forgings, that do not permit the gas to diffuse to the surface.
