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What is Brittleness

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A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it breaks with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation
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having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass. Easily damaged or destroyed; fragile

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