Hence, cast iron is a brittle metal, which can break like glass.

This helps prevent the wood from cracking, but the thin, brittle metal sometimes splits and is unpleasant to the touch.

But because too great a concentration of carbon makes metal brittle and unworkable, metals are also often decarburized.

Osmium is a hard but brittle metal that remains lustrous even at high temperatures.

Under pressure, the fear is, the brittle metal could crack.

Oil became almost solid, metal and rubber brittle and fractured easily.

Non-impact sockets and accessories are made of a harder more brittle metal.

This is often done with coin blanks to make the metal less brittle before striking.

Iron is a hopelessly brittle metal under those conditions.

Decker watched as the jaws of life carefully stretched brittle metal, trying to pry apart the driver's door.