• Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    This. And to expand on this, if there were a material that was strong against all of the mentioned weaknesses, how would you form it into anything useful?

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      Typically via forging through heating and quenching, for metals. For crystals, probably through growing it in the desired shape.