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FRACTURE FRAGILE [3 records]

Record 1 2008-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
DEF

A specimen separates into two or more pieces after being subjected to a stress before appreciable plastic deformation or creep is observed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
  • Petrography
CONT

By the Phanerozoic the principal response to spreading was brittle fracture giving rise to conventional plate tectonics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
  • Pétrographie

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
  • Symptoms (Medicine)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
  • Symptômes (Médecine)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Huesos y articulaciones
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
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