Timeline for Does extreme cold make **everything** extremely brittle?
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| Feb 16, 2015 at 16:55 | comment | added | Max Williams | I did mean materials which are solid at room temp actually, you're right. | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 16:31 | comment | added | feetwet | @MaxWilliams: We know of materials (e.g., helium) that don't even solidify at absolute zero, so no, not all matter has a brittle transition temperature. Whether all materials that solidify always have a brittle temperature may be what you mean. I bet there are some easy counterexamples, but I don't know them. | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 9:19 | comment | added | Max Williams | thanks @feetweet but that doesn't really answer my question, which could be rephrased as "Would all materials undergo catatrophic brittle failure at a low enough temperature?". That quote says "many", which doesn't address the question. | |
| Feb 14, 2015 at 20:54 | history | answered | feetwet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |