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indent

In text, a measured space inwards from the left-hand margin, indicating the beginning of a paragraph. This practice is stylistically correct in handwritten documents but has declined in word processing, where a double ‘carriage return’ (or line space) separates paragraphs.



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A durometer works by measuring the penetration of the gauge indentor under specific conditions.
In addition to an optical microscope, the system has an atomic force microscope (ATM) equipped with a specially designed probe to measure particle shapes, and a diamond compression indentor whose tip is flattened using a focused ion beam (FIB) process to the extent that the tip is 1 micron in diameter, narrow enough to compress just a single particle at a time.
All preset parameters can be set up in test files, and the complete range of test loads and indentor sizes also can be added.
 
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