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AZCat

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Sun Nov-16-08 12:12 AM
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41. IIRC brittle and stiff...

are as follows: stiff has to do with the Young's Modulus, and brittle has to do with how much strain energy per unit area a material can absorb before failure. It's been a long time since I took any materials science, though.

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