For boiler and ship plates, the mildest and most ductile steel is favored.
Not many of us have ever seen iron, the pure metal, soft, ductile and white like silver.
Their owner has learned to handle a ductile metal, to draw it from the rocks and fuse it in the fire.
When the metal plates are very soft and ductile, the operation of punching does no appreciable injury.
Earlier fabrics, cross-cut by the veins, are more ductile in nature and may reflect the aseismic stage of the fault history.
This led to the generation of ductile transpressional shear zones while the crust was thermally weakened because of the high temperatures.
The hornblende lacks ductile bends and recrystallized margins.
