Metal and metal alloy properties and their construction uses

• Metals are popular construction materials
• They have properties that make them suited for making diverse structures
• They are ductile which means they can be pulled into wires
• They are malleable which means they can be hammering into different shapes such as sheets, rods, bars and tubes
• They are strong in tension and compression
• They can be alloyed with other metals and non-metals to produce a material with different properties
• Metals are used to make various structures
• For example
• bridges, cranes, pylons, door frames, window frames etc

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