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Ductility

/dʌkˈtɪləti/noun
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Ductility is the measure of a material's ability to deform under tensile stress without breaking, allowing it to be stretched, bent, or drawn into wires. This property is crucial in fields like metallurgy and engineering for creating flexible components that can withstand real-world forces, but in modern applications, it's also key to assessing material failure risks in everything from bridges to smartphone screens.

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