Question
An element is sonorous and highly ductile. Under which category would you classify this element? What other characteristics do you expect the element to possess?
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Answer
As the given element is sonorous and highly ductile, therefore, it is categorised as a metal. Some other e pected characteristics of are:
- It should possesses metallic lustre and can be polished.
- It should be good conductors of heat and electricity.
- It should be ductile.
- It should be malleable.
- It should has high tensile strength.
- It should has high densities and melting point/boiling point too.
- It should be hard (except sodium and potassium which are soft metals).
- It should be solid at room temperature (except mercury, which is liquid at room temperature).
- Non-metals are neither malleable nor ductile and do not conduct electricity.
- Metalloids show some properties of metals and some other properties of non-metals.
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