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Materials GapFill

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Bulk properties are properties that relate to the material of an object, and are independent of the object's size or shape.
An example of a bulk property is  buoyancydensitypressureYoung's modulus, which is the mass per unit volume of a material.
The bulk properties of a material determine how it reacts to compression and stretching. Materials stretch or compress linearly with force exerted, following  Bulk's lawCharles' lawYoung's lawHooke's law up to their  bulk limitlinear pointelastic limitbreaking stress.
There are lots of ways to define how strong a material is. For instance, diamond is very hard (resistant to scratching) but isn't very tough (can be crushed relatively easily).
Strength can be quantified using  elasticityhardnessstrainstress, which is the force exerted over a given area, and  strainhardnessstresselasticity, which is the ratio of the change in an object's length to its original length. The ratio of these two values is called  Young's moduluselasticitystrainstrength.
The maximum force an object can withstand before fracturing is its  breaking stressbreaking strainelastic limittoughness.
Materials can be described qualitatively using lots of different terms:
  •  HardnessElasticityBrittlenessPlasticity is an object's tendency to not return to its original shape after being deformed
  •  BrittlenessPlasticityElasticityHardness is an object's tendency to fracture with relatively little deformation
  •  DuctilityElasticityBrittlenessDurability is an object's ability to be stretched out into a thin wire without fracturing

Many materials will show these properties at different extensions and under different forces.

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