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Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?
(no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be "harder")
I‘d argue many people outside of the field are able to grasp it too
But most people don't differentiate between hardness and toughness in day to day language
That's just because it's really hard
Rock is usually harder though, but steel is more tough. Compared to a lot of other materials steel is still really hard, to be fair. At least that's my understanding, as someone who just googled "hardness vs toughness" lol
Yes, my comment was a pun
Oh, my bad. that went completely over my head lmao
You silly goose