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A starfish, or brittle star.
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Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4ยก C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
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An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
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One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
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A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.
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Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
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Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.
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A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
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Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
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Brittle.
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A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.
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A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
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More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
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A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.
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A starfish, or brittle star.
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That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
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Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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In a brittle manner.
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Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
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