Shore durometer Shore durometer The Shore durometer is a device for measuring the hardness of a material, typically of polymers, elastomers, and rubbers.. Higher numbers on the scale indicate a greater resistance to indentation and thus harder materials. Lower numbers indicate less resistance and softer materials. The term is also used to describe a material‘s rating on the scale, as in an object having a “‘Shore durometer’ of 90.” The scale was defined by Albert Ferdinand Shore, who developed a suitable device to measure hardness in the 1920s. It was neither the first hardness tester nor the first to be called a
The Opposing Shore and self-destructive. The dreamlike qualities of the novel are related to Gracq's previous affinity with the surrealist movement; Gracq described "The Opposing Shore" as an "awakened dream". The book was published through José Corti in 1951. An English translation by Richard Howard was published by Columbia University Press in 1986. Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck wrote in "The New York Times" in 1986: In different ways, the French title "Le Rivage des Syrtes" and its English counterpart, "The Opposing Shore," conjure up this old image of an alien coast, clearly still vivid in the Western imagination. ... The author uses his extensive classical