Can someone explain me what is the work of a substance file?

I am working on rendering and getting confused regarding the substance file i.e .sbsar file type.

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A Substance is a file with the .SBSAR extension.
Substances can be used in the following products:
Substance Designer
Substance Player
Unity 3d (3.4 and above)
Autodesk Maya 2012 and above
Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 and above
Autodesk Flame 2012 and above

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