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fracture
(redirected from fracturing)

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See: hiatus, rend, rift, split


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The women's calcium intake did not seem to be associated with their risk of fracturing a hip, even when they used as much as 1500 milligrams of calcium daily.
As a result, the facial structures can undergo significant distortion without fracturing.
While scientists in Japan have previously succeeded in slowing crack growth, Lockner's group is the first to both retard fracturing and use acoustic emissions to tracks the developing crack, says Tengfong Wong of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
 
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