noun
ductility
the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets
In a sentence
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Copper's ductility lets a smith pull the metal out to a hair-fine strand without it ever snapping.
Science
Engineers prize steel for its ductility, since a beam that bends visibly gives occupants warning before anything gives way.
Architecture
Goldsmiths rely on ductility to beat a coin-sized nugget into a leaf so fine that light passes through it.
Art
Cable factories depend on copper's ductility, drawing a thick rod through ever smaller dies until it becomes wire.
Technology
Steel's ductility lets a string maker draw a strand thin enough to sound a high E without snapping.
Music
Egyptian goldsmiths exploited the ductility of gold to draw wire fine enough to weave into a pharaoh's collar.
History
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