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Malleability is rated because some are more malleable than others. Simple put: any material that is soft enough to be physically altered into another shape by physical means (without breaking) is malleable.

This is different than material that can be bent (flexibility) in that the surface of the material must be malleable and not just the mass as a whole being flexible.

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