“…It is a hard ceramic having high strength over a broad temperature range, moderate thermal conductivity, low coefficient of thermal expansion, moderately high elastic modulus, and unusually high fracture toughness for a ceramic (Dressler & Riedel, 1997;Pasto, 2013;Riley, 2000). It is a hard ceramic having high strength over a broad temperature range, moderate thermal conductivity, low coefficient of thermal expansion, moderately high elastic modulus, and unusually high fracture toughness for a ceramic (Dressler & Riedel, 1997;Pasto, 2013;Riley, 2000).…”