Sentence examples for hardness on from inspiring English sources

The measurement of indentation hardness on super-hard nanocomposite coatings: nc-TiN/a-Si3N4 and nc-TiN/a-BN is investigated.

The results suggest that such residual elements form hard boundaries, leading to higher hardness on a local microstructural level.

But adversity has stamped a hardness on Mr Blunkett, whereas Mr Letwin can often sound like one of the "woolly liberals" Labour home secretaries have taken to denouncing.

"If you put some hardness on the witnesses," he said.

You can see the hardness on Mr. Dance's pinched face, hear the disappointment in his testy voice.

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.

The transposition confers a hardness on a piece that is sometimes sentimentalised, and reminds us that the opera is as much about the abrasions of reality as the grandeur of passion.

Wood experts rate a species' hardness on the Janka scale — a measure of how many pounds of force it takes to drive a half-inch steel ball halfway into a board.

His "Eleanor Rigby," which I find maudlin as a song, shows its hardness on the page, as flawless a poem as rock has produced: Father Mackenzie, Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave.

Other methods of measuring hardness, like those proposed by Brinell, Vickers and Knoop, allow representing hardness on ratio scales.

In addition, the dependence of hardness on Si content should not have related to crystallization degree.