Sectility
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sectility-162-9594659
title:
Sectility
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Sectility is the ability of a mineral to be cut into thin pieces with a knife. Minerals that are not sectile will be broken into rougher pieces when cut. Metals and paper are sectile. Sectility can be used to distinguish minerals of similar appearance, and is a form of tenacity. For example, gold is sectile but pyrite is not. Sectility in metals is a result of metallic bonding, where valence (bonding) electrons are delocalized and can flow freely between atoms, rather than being shared between s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectility
date created:
2005-02-06T23:10:36Z
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2024-08-28T02:13:07Z
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