Properties of Metals and Nonmetals

Most metals are shiny or have a -

• metallica

• metallic luster

• metal

• luther vandross

What is the difference between metals and nonmetals?

• Most metals are dull and colorless and nonmetals are shiny.

• Most nonmetals are dull and shiny and metals are colorless.

• Most metals are shiny and nonmetals are dull and colorless.

• Most metals are colorless and nonmetals don't exist.

Metals are a good conductor or heat. This means that -

• they allow electricity to flow through them

• they do not allow electricity to flow through them

Metals are _______ conductors of heat and nonmetals are _______ conductors of heat.

• poor, good

• metal, nonmetal

• good, poor

• shiny, dull

Malleable can describe a metal because it means:

• that a metal can be broken into pieces

• that a metal can be shiny

• that a metal can be flattened

• that a nonmetal can be flattened.

Ductile describes:

• how a metal can be flattened

• how a metal can be stretched into a wire

• how a metal can conduct

• none of thes

Nonmetals are not malleable or ductile, they are:

• nonmetals

• metals

• brittle

• shiny

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Most metals are _____ at room temperature.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• none of these

Most nonmetals are _____ at room temperature.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• none of these