Sentence examples for hardness from inspiring English sources

Sandpaper is typically made from silicate, with different impurities added depending on the hardness or coarseness of the sandpaper.

I'm as likely to recall the hardness of the benches on which we sat or the cry of the newspaper vendor with his bag of Manchester Evening News's as I am to conjure the memory of Botham's blind sixes.

He was working in one of Sheffield's metallurgy labs and trying different alloying elements to improve the hardness of steel.

Hardened glass, however, is of a similar hardness to the silicate used in sandpaper and therefore can be scratched.

Widely known as the hardest natural material, they achieve a perfect ten on the Mohs scale of hardness.

Although their nanocrystalline nickel was very tough at first, it lost its hardness when left at room temperature over a matter of months and so ended up as a poor substitute for chrome.

He is known for hardness on the field and holiness off it: it was his "Christian conviction", he said, that made him confess his guilt.

And I thought: why would anyone leave?That sort of doubtful sentimentality is itself a very Russian trait, which somehow co-exists with all the country's hardness.

In 1928 he was elected governor of New York and in 1932, at the height of America's economic crisis, he was elected president.Courage, charm, resourceful cunning and a hidden hardness enabled him to save American capitalism, though, as he said himself, it was Dr Win-the-War, not Dr New Deal, that ended the Depression.

Asked to identify Francis's most salient characteristic, one diplomat replied: "His hardness".Last month Francis announced a new Secretariat of the Economy to oversee the Vatican's financial affairs.

When value starts to quake and melt like this, it's no wonder we cling to guns, to religion, to gold, to the fetishistic hardness of our currency.