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The 28 pages that link to Anisotropy, each with the reason it gives.

• GraphiteRelated: Graphite conducts heat and electricity far better along its sheets than across them.

• Additive manufacturingRelated: Layer interfaces can make a printed part weaker or otherwise different across build directions.

• PermeabilityRelated: Permeability can differ by direction, especially in layered rocks and fractured materials.

• HardnessRelated: Crystallographic direction can make hardness differ across a single crystal.

• PermittivityRelated: Anisotropic materials require permittivity to be represented by a tensor.

• Surface roughnessRelated: Directional machining marks can make roughness differ depending on the measurement direction.

• Powder metallurgyRelated: Compaction and particle alignment can make a powder-metallurgy part directionally nonuniform.

• Optical rotationNarrower topic: Optical rotation is a specific polarization effect, distinct from the broader directional dependence of material properties.

• MicaRelated: Mica’s properties differ along its sheets and perpendicular to them.

• PlywoodNarrower topic: Wood’s directional behavior motivates plywood’s alternating veneer orientation.

• Groundwater flowRelated: Layering and aligned fractures can make flow faster in some directions.

• Poisson's ratioCompared with: Directional dependence can require several Poisson ratios instead of one scalar value.

• PleochroismNarrower topic: Directional dependence is the underlying condition that permits pleochroism.

• Composite materialRelated: Aligned fibers make many composites much stronger along one direction than another.

• Carbon fiber reinforced polymerRelated: CFRP is strongest and stiffest along its fibers, so layup creates directional behavior.

• Liquid crystalRelated: Molecular alignment makes liquid crystals respond differently along different axes.

• Seismic velocityRelated: Seismic speed can vary with direction in aligned crystals, cracks, or layers.

• Carbon fibersRelated: Carbon fibers are much stronger and stiffer along their length than across it.

• Mohr–Coulomb theoryRelated: Layered or foliated materials can have different strengths on different planes, contrary to a single envelope.

• LaminationRelated: Layer orientation often makes a laminate stronger in some directions than others.

• George SmootNarrower topic: The discovery showed that the early universe was not perfectly uniform across the sky.

• KyaniteNarrower topic: Kyanite’s hardness changes with direction because its properties are anisotropic.

• CupriteCompared with: Cuprite’s cubic symmetry makes it optically isotropic, unlike many colored minerals.

• Grain boundary strengtheningRelated: Grain orientation makes strengthening and deformation direction-dependent in textured materials.

• Hexagonal crystal familyRelated: Hexagonal symmetry constrains which directional property differences are permitted.

• Auxetic materialsRelated: Some auxetic structures show negative Poisson’s ratios only along selected directions.

• BoudinageRelated: Directional strength in a rock can influence boudin shape and orientation.

• TectoniteRelated: Aligned fabrics make many tectonites directionally uneven in strength and other properties.