Metal

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A metal is a chemical element that readily conducts electricity and heat, forms cations, and bonds ionically with non-metals.

Metal may also refer to:

• Métal, a portfolio by photographer Germaine Krull (1897–1985)
• Metal (Wu Xing), one of the five Wu Xing
• Metal Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
• Metallicity, the proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium in matter
• Metals, two of the seven basic types of tincture (heraldry)
• Road metal, the crushed stone used for road surfaces and railway track ballast
• MetaL (programming language), a language for meta-programming
• "Metal", the default look and feel for GUI applications in Swing (Java)

Metal also has a number of uses in music:

• Heavy metal music, often referred to simply as "metal"
• Metal (Annihilator album)
• Metal (Manilla Road album)
• Metal (Preston Reed album)
• Metals (Feist album)
• "Metal" (Gary Numan song), on the album The Pleasure Principle
• "The Metal", a song on Tenacious D's album The Pick of Destiny
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, a documentary
• Metal (magazine), an Argentine Heavy Metal magazine

See also

• Heavy metal (disambiguation)

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