🔍 Key Concepts

• Malleability vs. ductility – both describe how metals deform, but in different ways (shape of the material and direction of force). • Elasticity – what a metal does when you remove the load (does it spring back?). • Fusibility – what happens to a metal when it is heated to high temperatures (melting).

💭 Think About

• Which property describes a metal’s ability to be shaped under compressive forces, such as hammering or rolling into sheets? • Which property is more about being drawn into wires under tension rather than being hammered flat? • Which choices describe behavior under heat or after the load is removed, rather than while being hammered or rolled?

✅ Before You Answer

• Match the definition: ability to be hammered or rolled into thin sheets. • Eliminate any option that mainly involves stretching into wires or springing back to original shape. • Eliminate the property that is primarily about melting when heated rather than mechanical shaping.