malleable

(adjective)

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers.

Related Terms

Examples of malleable in the following topics:

  • General Properties of Metals

    • Metals are usually malleable, ductile, and shiny.
    • Typically they are malleable and ductile, deforming under stress without cleaving.

  • Variation of Physical Properties Within a Group

    • They are malleable (can be hammered into thin sheets) and ductile (can be stretched into wires).
    • On the left is sodium, a very metallic element (ductile, malleable, conducts electricity).

  • Metallic Crystals

    • Metallic bonding accounts for many physical properties of metals, such as strength, malleability, ductility, thermal and electrical conductivity, opacity, and luster.
    • They typically are deformable (malleable) under stress, without cleaving.
    • Mechanical properties of metals include malleability and ductility, meaning the capacity for plastic deformation.

  • Periodic Trends in Metallic Properties

    • Because each ion is surrounded by the electron fluid in all directions, the bonding has no directional properties; this accounts for the high malleability and ductility of metals.

  • Bonding in Metals: The Electron Sea Model

    • Metals are ductile and malleable because local bonds can be easily broken and reformed.

  • Elements and Compounds

  • Aluminum

  • Introduction to Bonding

    • For example, smaller covalent compounds that are held together by weaker bonds are frequently soft and malleable.

  • Chromium

    • It is also odorless and malleable.

  • Titanium, Chromium, and Manganese

    • It is odorless, tasteless, and malleable.