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of that grain but this is a less severe direction change then would be required to follow the grain boundary. This results in a fairly smooth-looking fracture with fewer sharp edges than one that follows the grain boundaries. This can be visualized as a jigsaw puzzle cut from a single sheet of wood with the wood grain showing. A transgranular fracture follows the grains in the wood, not the jigsaw edges of the puzzle pieces. This is in contrast to an intergranular fracture which, in this analogy, would

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