Scientists describe any substance that shatters or breaks easily as being

Scientists describe any substance that shatters or breaks easily as being brittle.

Explanation: Brittleness is the property of matter that is how easily the substance breaks or shatters when force is applied to it.

Non Metals such as carbon are considered as brittle as they held together by weak forces whereas metals such as gold are malleable that is they can be beaten into sheets as they are held together by strong metallic bonds.

the answer would most likely be c, because if it's a comical piece of information, it may likely not be true, if it's a site that allows anybody to edit the content, it could mean a five year old is typing the info, and if it's a tv show produced by a celeb, it may have a biased opinion.

the components of a vector are the parts of the vectors that are to each other.

b perpendicular