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A cloth of woven carbon fiber filaments, a common element in composite materials
Composite materials, often shortened to composites or called composition materials, are engineered or naturally occurring materials made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties which remain separate and distinct at the macroscopic or microscopic scale within the finished structure.
A common example of a composite would be disc brake pads, which consists of hard ceramic particles embedded in soft metal matrix. Another example is found in shower stalls and bathtubs which are made of fibreglass. Imitation granite and cultured marble sinks and countertops are also widely used. The most advanced examples perform routinely on spacecraft in demanding environments.
Concrete is also a composite material, and is used more than any other man-made material in the world.[1] As of 2006, about 7.5 billion cubic metres of concrete are made each year—more than one cubic metre for every person on Earth.[2]
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