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Composites use two or more phases to attain property combinations not possible from either phase alone. Chocolate is an everyday example of a composite consisting of sugar, milk solids, cocoa, and cocoa butter. Different ratios of the ingredients lead to semi-sweet, milk chocolate, or dark chocolate.

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German, R.M. (2016). Introduction. In: Particulate Composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29917-4_1

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