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[[File: Adolin_blade.jpg|300px|thumb|right|<center><small>by: [[User: Sheep|Sheep]]</small></center>Adolin poses with his Shardblade alongside Kaladin]]
Shardblades can cut through non-living objects, such as wood or stone, as if they are passing through water.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}
Shardblades cannot be blocked by any typical weapons or armor, but they can be halted by a few things. One Shardblade can block another Shardblade,{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} and when the two collide they may produce sparks.{{book ref|sa1|68}} Shardplate can also stop a Shardblade, although two blows to a section of Shardplate is typically enough to shatter it.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} The [[half-shard]]s of [[Jah Keved]] were also designed by more modern artifabrians to be resistant to Shardblades.{{book ref|sa1|22}} These are shields with an [[Augumenter]] attached,{{book ref|sa1|part=ars}} allowing them to withstand two blows from a Shardblade before breaking.{{book ref|sa1|i|9}} The final known way to block a Shardblade is with [[aluminum]],{{17s ref|post|532589|text=... [A] shardblade would not cut aluminum.|date=3 February 2017}} which is a rare material on Roshar as it can only be obtained through [[Soulcasting]].{{book ref|sa2|48}} It is worth noting that the aluminum only nullifies the supernatural sharpness of the Blade, so a thin sheet of aluminum foil would be sheared through easily by a Blade.{{17s ref|post|533903|text=Aluminum would stop Shardblades from magical cutting. But if its too thin like foil, a sword...|date=7 February 2017}}
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