Electrical Conductivity
Ductile metal that carries electric current.
What is a wire?
Metals are generally solids except for mercury which is a liquid.
What is the state of metal at room temperature?
A mixture made of two or more elements with at least one being a metal
What is an alloy?
Thermal conductivity is one of the biggest characteristic of this.
What is metal?
The proper scientific name of electricity.
What is Electromagnetism?
Easily bent metal that can be pulled into strands or wires.
What is Ductility?
This alloy is shiny but it is soft, easily bent, and used in jewelry when fused with copper
What is pure gold?
This is the transfer of thermal energy.
What is heat?
Charged electron particles that are free to move between atoms.
What is electric current?
When light strikes the valence electrons they absorb it and then re-emit the light.
What causes Luster?
These are generally stronger and less reactive then pure metals
What are the general properties of alloys?
The total energy of motion in the particles of an object.
What is thermal energy?
Valence electrons in a metal can move freely among the atoms.
What causes electric current?
Ions in metal change position because positive metal ions are attracted to the electrons around them. This makes the ions change position.
What causes Malleability?
An alloy of iron, carbon, nickle, and chromium
What is stainless steel?
Electrons in the warmer part of the object can transfer energy to the electrons in the cooler part of the object.
What causes thermal conductivity?