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iridium

as platinum which it much resembles being silver white and indifferent to most corrosive agents but harder more brittle and with a higher melting temperature 2410deg C versus platinum 1772deg C With the exception of osmium it

Malleability

The quality or state of being malleable opposed to friability and brittleness

VerbarOphiurioidea

which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea See Illust under Brittle star

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Potash

The hydroxide of potassium hydrate a hard white brittle substance KOH having strong caustic and alkaline properties hence called also caustic potash

Shiver

One of the small pieces or splinters into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence generally used in the plural

Sea star

A starfish or brittle star

Shattery

Easily breaking into pieces not compact loose of texture brittle as shattery spar

Snap

To break at once to break short as substances that are brittle

Cast iron

means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace. It contains up to 4% carbon, and is more brittle, but more easily fused, than steel'. According to Van Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia, 'cast iron' is 'primarily the product

Ice

reduced to the solid state by cold frozen water It is a white or transparent colorless substance crystalline brittle and viscoidal Its specific gravity 092 that of water at 4deg C being 10 being less than that

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