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Why are metals metals?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Metallic elements tend to have similar physical characteristics; they are ductile, malleable, electrically and thermally conductive, solid at room temperature (except Mercury) and have very high melting points.

In their atomic configuration, they have to lose electrons to become ionized. Since they lose electrons, they have a positive charge. They will not react with another element that has to lose electrons to become ionized.

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