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Sodium and potassium can be cut very easily with a normal kitchen knife so it does not show normal metallic characteristics which tells that a metal is hard . Lead another metal has very low melting point, which is opposite to the statement that metals have high boiling and melting point. Mercury and gallium are in liquid phase at room temperature which opposes that metals are solid at room temperature. These metals are called exceptions.

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