8.3. Metals and Metallic Bonds http://www.ck12.org
FIGURE 8.15
Corroded iron pipe.FIGURE 8.16
Most of the exterior of the Walt Disney
Concert Hall pictured here is stainless
steel.bonds.- Precious metals are relatively rare and often can be found naturally as a pure metal rather than as part of an
ionic compound. - Rare earth metals are an important set of metals because of their use in a variety of modern industrial
applications. - Alloys are solid mixtures of two or more metals (sometimes with small amounts of a nonmetal, such as
carbon). The properties of alloys may be quite different than the properties of the pure elements from which
they are formed.