d and f BLOCK ELEMENTS Quiz

• Similar sizes increase electrical conductivity
• Similar sizes ensure identical chemical properties
• Similar sizes minimize lattice strain energy
• Similar sizes make the metals liquid

• Brass contains lead, bronze does not
• The primary non-copper metal: Zinc in brass, Tin in bronze
• Brass is harder than bronze
• Bronze is a ferrous alloy, brass is not

• They lack electrons
• They are purely ionic
• The strong interactions between the metal and the interstitial atom create a stable structure
• They are noble metals

• High melting points
• Chemical inertness
• Low melting points
• Very high hardness

• Purely ionic
• Purely covalent
• Metallic only
• Intermediate, neither purely ionic nor covalent