How do I go about retrieving the material of a child Gameobject

Unity Engine
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The first one locates ok but the second causes Visual Studio error and am not sure why

Material = tickRadial.transform.FindChild("DNALinkSpheres").gameObject.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();

Material = tickRadial.transform.FindChild("DNALinkSpheres").GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();
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First, don’t write code like that.

If it has more than one dot on a line, you’re brutalizing yourself with hairy code.

How to break down hairy lines of code:

http://plbm.com/?p=248

Break it up, practice social distancing in your code, one thing per line please.

Second, Material is a type.

Now technically you CAN legally recycle that name as a variable name (eg, public Material Material;), but again, why would anyone do that to themselves?

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Solved:

Renderer tempRender = tickRadial.transform.FindChild("DNALinkSpheres").GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();// = chainLink_A_Material;
                        tempRender.material = tickColor;

I was solving for the material anyway. This completed the execution. Now that is all I need to flip the materials in and out.