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Toughness

The quality of a hard substance to resist being fractured by a blow or by being snapped. The toughness of a stone does not correspond to its hardness. The converse of toughness is being brittle.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson