Metal elements are also malleable and ductile, allowing them to be “worked.” Nonmetal elements have poor electrical, as well as thermal, conductivity. They aren’t able to pass electricity or heat as well as metal elements.

Reactive metals, such as magnesium, are widely used in rust prevention and are known as sacrificial anodes. Iron will rust unless protected in some way. Reactive metals, when attached to less reactive metals, have the ability to prevent the less reactive metal from rusting.

Physical properties of metals include:

• Corrosion resistance.
• Density.
• Melting point.
• Thermal properties.
• Electrical conductivity.
• Magnetic properties.

Answer: Metal is a substance which is lustrous, sonorous, ductile, and is a good conductor of heat and electricity.

Examples of metals are aluminium, copper, iron, tin, gold, lead, silver, titanium, uranium, and zinc. Well-known alloys include bronze and steel.

Mercury

Metal, any of a class of substances characterized by high electrical and thermal conductivity as well as by malleability, ductility, and high reflectivity of light. Block of metallic gold. Approximately three-quarters of all known chemical elements are metals.

Silicon is one of the most useful elements to mankind. Most is used to make alloys including aluminium-silicon and ferro-silicon (iron-silicon). These are used to make dynamo and transformer plates, engine blocks, cylinder heads and machine tools and to deoxidise steel. Silicon is also used to make silicones.

The largest use of germanium is in the semiconductor industry. When doped with small amounts of arsenic, gallium, indium, antimony or phosphorus, germanium is used to make transistors for use in electronic devices. Germanium is also used to create alloys and as a phosphor in fluorescent lamps.