- Have a giant structure of positive ions surrounded by free electrons
- Are held together by metallic bonding. They have a giant structure of positive ions surrounded by a sea of de-localised (free) electrons
- The attraction between the positive ions and electrons is called 'metallic bonding'It is the metallic bonding which gives metals their properties
Properties
- hammered/ bent into shape
- good conductors of heat and electricity due to the free electrons which carry the electrical
- strong
- malleable- atoms in a regular pattern in layers slide over eachother and can be hammered into shape
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