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Many physical characteristics of continuously distributed matter are local in the sense that they pertain to individual material points and their immediate neighborhoods, rather than to a body as a whole. Examples of such local characteristics are: elastic response, viscosity, heat capacity, electrical conductivity, magnetic response, optical refraction, chemical composition, color.
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Noll, W. (1968). Inhomogeneities in Materially Uniform Simple Bodies. In: Continuum Theory of Inhomogeneities in Simple Bodies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85992-2_1
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