Chemistry A-Level
Malleability and ductility
What Malleability and ductility means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Malleability and ductility
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Properties of metals arising because layers of cations can slide over one another when a force is applied, rather than being brittle.
Topics that use Malleability and ductility
- Periodicity (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Applying the sequence to specific elements
- atomic radius
- Cations and delocalised electrons
- delocalised electrons
- Distinction from mass number and relative atomic mass
- electrostatic attraction
- First ionisation energy
- Forces broken on melting
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