On 29/06/2006, at 7:22 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I know I'm a bit pedantic about this, but I've had to spend a good
deal of
time worrying about the tradeoffs between hardness and brittleness.
I had
long talks on this with a colleague who has a PhD in
metallurgy...so the
differences are fairly big in my mind.
I had a long-term gf who was M.Eng in Material Science, and who spent
a fair bit of time getting me to test her on stuff for her finals.
Some of it rubbed off (no, not that way).
Charlie
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