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Poing.
This is a characteristic of metals.
A dull thud as it is a very soft metal, rather like putty.
A nail made of simple pure iron (cast) would quite possibly shatter when hit with a hammer. That is why nails are made of steel and other "flexible" and softer metals.
Metals are malleable (can be hammered into thin sheets), ductile (can be drawn through wires), lustrous (shining), sonorous (give a ringing sound when hit), excellent conductors of heat and electricity, have high melting and boiling points and are usually solid at room temperature. Nonmetals are non-malleable, non ductile, dull colored, give a dull sound when hit, insulators or bad conductors of heat and electricity, have low melting and boiling points and are found in all three states of matter, that are, solid, liquid and gas. Substances having both metallic and nonmetallic features are called metalloids.
It makes a dull sound, while a metal makes a ringing noise like a gong!
Solid lead would make a dull thud when hit.
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Poing.
a very metalic sound comes from the two things which are hit! a kind of 'clink!'
This is a characteristic of metals.
Dunted bricks are bricks that are dunted, der! 1.a hard blow or hit, esp. one that makes a dull sound; thump 2.to strike, esp. with a dull sound.
A dull thud as it is a very soft metal, rather like putty.
A nail made of simple pure iron (cast) would quite possibly shatter when hit with a hammer. That is why nails are made of steel and other "flexible" and softer metals.
Metals are malleable (can be hammered into thin sheets), ductile (can be drawn through wires), lustrous (shining), sonorous (give a ringing sound when hit), excellent conductors of heat and electricity, have high melting and boiling points and are usually solid at room temperature. Nonmetals are non-malleable, non ductile, dull colored, give a dull sound when hit, insulators or bad conductors of heat and electricity, have low melting and boiling points and are found in all three states of matter, that are, solid, liquid and gas. Substances having both metallic and nonmetallic features are called metalloids.
Sonorous metals can be used to make musical instruments like steel drums or metalophones or triangles because they make a ringing sound.
Some similarities of metals, nonmetals, and metalliods are that they all have a sound when hit, and all have a grayish like color.