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Answer for the clue "The malleability of something that can be drawing into wires or hammered into thin sheets ", 9 letters:
ductility

Word definitions for ductility in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Earth science , as opposed to Materials Science , Ductility refers to the capacity of a rock to deform to large strains without macroscopic fracturing. Such behavior may occur in unlithified or poorly lithified sediments , in weak materials such as halite ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ductility \Duc*til"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. ductilit['e].] The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments. Tractableness; pliableness. --South.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the malleability of something that can be drawing into wires or hammered into thin sheets

Usage examples of ductility.

Glastic: an ultrahigh molecular weight, thermosetting polymer of boron oxide that has the colloidal properties of glass with the ductility of plastic.

If there were real artefacts, physicists and chemists would be fighting for the privilege of discovering that there are aliens among us who use, say, unknown alloys, or materials of extraordinary tensile strength or ductility or conductivity.