Smartphone Chemistry Quiz

What property of metals do smartphone designers use to market smartphones as sleek and modern?

• Durability

• Malleability

• Luster

• Conductivity

What property of metals allows them to be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking?

• Durability

• Conductivity

• Malleability

• Luster

What property of metals allows modern smartphones to have capacitive touchscreens?

• Luster

• Malleability

• Conductivity

• Durability

What property of metals allows them to be pulled into wire?

• Durability

• Conductivity

• Luster

• Malleability

What property of metalloids makes them crucial components of smartphone processors?

• Luster

• Malleability

• Semiconductivity

• Conductivity

What property of nonmetals makes them brittle and not malleable or ductile?

• Luster

• Malleability

• Conductivity

• Brittleness

What property of nonmetals allows them to be used in smartphone batteries?

• Luster

• Brittleness

• Malleability

• Conductivity

What is the positive electrode usually made of in a smartphone battery?

• Lithium compound

• Carbon

• Metalloid

• Nonmetal

What is the negative electrode usually made of in a smartphone battery?

• Metalloid

• Nonmetal

• Carbon

• Lithium compound