• They are hard and strong

• They are solids at room temperature (Except for mercury )

• They have a shiny lustre when polished.

• They make good conductors of heat.

• They make good conductors of electricity.

• They are dense

• Malleable and Ductile.

• Sonorous

2. mineral from which metal is extracted: a naturally occurring mineral from which constituents, especially metals, can be profitably extracted

3. The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) consists of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze.

Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent. The adoption of this material coincided with other changes in some past societies often including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles, although this was not always the case.

4. In chemistry, a metal fudgean element that readily loses electrons to form positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds between metal atoms. Metals form ionic bonds with non-metals.

5. a substance that is a mixture of two or more metals, or of a metal with a nonmetallic material

6. iron, manganese, lead, gold, & copper

7. HAVE NO IDEA

8. A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, generally iron.

Certain modern furnaces used for non-ferrous smelting processes are known as blast furnaces, and are particularly in the production of lead and copper.

9. Carbon is found in many different compounds. It is in the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the cosmetics you use and the gasoline that fuels your car. In addition, carbon is a very special element because it plays a dominant role in the chemistry of life.

10. The ancient Romans used lead for making water pipes and lining baths, and the plumber who joins and mends pipes takes his name from the Latin word plumbum, meaning lead.

11. the conduction of electricity through something melted or dissolved in order to induce decomposition of the melted or dissolved chemical into its components

12. “too much” or “extravagant,”

13. CDs, cars, refrigerators, kitchenware, electric power lines, packaging for food and medicine, computers, furniture and aircrafts. We use aluminum every day, even though we don’t necessarily pay too much attention to it and often don’t even realize it

14. Davy believed that chemical union was electrical in nature- and so, a strong electric current might be able to overcome the forces binding compounds together, and lead to the isolation of new elements. In 1807 he tested this hypothesis on potash (potassium hydroxide, KOH) and caustic soda (sodium hydroxide, NaOH), which had previously been suspected to be oxides of unknown metals. Davy fired a small piece of KOH in a furnace and placed it on a platinum plate. He connected the plate to the negative terminal of an enormous battery made of 250 stacked cells made of 6″ x 4″ copper and zinc plates. The positive terminal was connected to a platinum wire and touched to the top of the KOH. The results were spectacular. According to Davy’s brother, when Davy saw the globules of potassium metal break through the potash and burst into flame, “he could not contain his joy- he actually bounded about the room in ecstatic delight”. A few days later, the experiment was repeated with sodium hydroxide, and sodium metal was discovered.

15. An element that readily loses electrons to form positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds between metal atoms. Metals form ionic bonds with non-metals. They are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions surrounded by a cloud of delocalized electrons.