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Giving examples and explain the term ‘malleability’

Malleability is a property of beating a metal into sheets. For example if you are given a piece of any metal – iron, copper, zinc or aluminium and beat it with a hammer it become longer and larger and do not break. Thus metals can be obtained as thin sheets.

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