Properties and Uses of Metals
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- Properties and uses of Metals
- Properties
- Strong
- Shiny when polished
- Malleable (can be hammered into shape)
- Ductile (can be drawn out into wire)
- Conduct heat well
- Conduct electricity well
- Transition metals
- Good conductors of heat and electricity
- Can be hammered into shape
- Useful as structural materials
- Useful for making things that allow heat or electricity through them
- Aluminium
- Low density
- Doesn't corrode
- Titanium
- Low density
- Doesn't corrode
- Much stronger
- Very expensive and has specialist uses
- Copper
- Very good conductor of electricity and heat
- Doesn't react with water
- Can be bent but hard enough to be used as water pipes
- Pure Iron
- Too soft to be of much use
- Can be converted into an alloy - steel
- Stainless steel doesn't corrode
- An alloy of iron and small amounts of chromium and nickel
- Properties
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