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malleable

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malleable [′mal·yə·bəl]
(metallurgy)
Capable of undergoing plastic deformation without rupture; a property characteristic of metals.
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This metal, in fact, is the most tenacious, the most ductile, and the most malleable, and consequently suitable for all moulding operations; and when smelted with pit coal, is of superior quality for all engineering works requiring great resisting power, such as cannon, steam boilers, hydraulic presses, and the like.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
When the substance is in a proper state for the next process, it betrays evidences of incipient decomposition; the fibres are relaxed and softened, and rendered perfectly malleable.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
In effect, a large compass of beautiful thought and expression, from poetry old and new, have become to him matter malleable anew for a further and finer reach of literary art.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
 
 
 
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