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AT room temperature cadmium is very much more resistant to plastic deformation than lead, as can easily be proved by trying to bend permanently by hand rods or bars of the two metals, of like dimensions. For example, a bar of cadmium 18 cm. long by 1.5 by 0.6 cm. cannot be perceptively bent by hand with ordinary effort, while a similar bar of lead bends as much as is desired extremely easily.
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Andrade, E. N. da C., Nature, 187, 494 (1960).
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ANDRADE, E. Flow of Cadmium under Very Small Stresses. Nature 195, 991 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195991a0
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