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They have been instrumental in finding a critical length scale, which governs the ductile to brittle transition in adhesive wear, and further helped in the understanding of the relation between tangential work and wear rate or how self-affine surfaces emerge in three-body wear. However, so far, the studies were mostly limited to adhesive wear processes where the two surfaces in contact are composed of the same material. Here, we propose to study the transition from adhesive to abrasive wear by introducing a contrast of hardness between the contacting surfaces. Two wear processes emerge: one by gradual accretion of the third body by detachment of chips from both surfaces and the other being a more erratic mixed process involving large deformation of the third body and removal of large pieces from the soft surface. The critical length scale was found to be a good predictor of the ductile to brittle transition between both processes. 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