Which outcome impairs sapphire tensile strength when surface scratches appear?

💡 Explanation

Stresses concentrate at crack tips in the sapphire crystal, triggering Griffith crack propagation because the energy required to propagate the crack is less than the material's surface energy; therefore crack grows rapidly, rather than being stabilized by intrinsic defects.

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