brittleness and ready inflammability.

difficulties he was greatly embarrassed by the brittleness or " redshortness " of his steel, which he did not know how to cure.

The crystalline structure which exists on both sides becomes visible only in the metals of the first class, and only there manifests itself as brittleness.

the casting of the molten cast iron into shapes which were useful in spite of its brittleness, naturally followed.

The presence of a small quantity of the hard cementite ought naturally to strengthen the mass, by opposing the tendency of the soft ferrite to flow under any stress applied to it; but more cementite by its brittleness naturally weakens the mass, causing it to crack open under the distortion which stress inevitably causes.