Malleability is a property of atoms, especially metals, where they can be beateninto thin sheets.
Xenon is a gas at STP. Gases are not malleable.
Metals are malleable, and that physical property is caused by particle level delocalization of electrons between metal atoms.
The question does not really apply, as krypton is a gas under normal conditions. As it is a non-metal, if you did solidify it, it would not be malleable.
This property was not determined with only some thousands atoms available.
Silver is malleable because of its crystal structure, which allows its atoms to move and slide past each other when a force is applied. This property is due to the presence of empty spaces in the crystal lattice, allowing the atoms to easily change positions without breaking bonds.
Copper is malleable because its metallic bonds allow its atoms to move easily past each other without breaking. This means that when force is applied to copper, its atoms can rearrange without causing the material to crack or break.
Sodium is malleable because its metallic bonding allows its atoms to slide past one another easily, whereas sodium fluoride is not malleable because the strong ionic bonds between sodium and fluoride ions hold the compound in a rigid lattice structure. This lattice structure prevents the atoms from moving past each other, making sodium fluoride brittle instead of malleable.
The study of atoms is one topic in physics, but by no means the only topic.
No, covalent bonds are not malleable or ductile. Malleability and ductility are properties of materials at the macroscopic level, while covalent bonds are strong bonds between atoms at the atomic level. Covalent bonds are resistant to deformation under normal conditions.
Atomic physics and nuclear physics.
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Gold is extremely malleable.