Important facts about some metals
Metals are chemical elements that are used in a number of different ways. Read on and learn some interesting facts about metals. Metals are usually solid, good conductors of electricity and heat, shiny when clean, strong and malleable (meaning they can be bent and shaped).
Zinc phosphide is use for killing rat
Wood furnitures are coated with zinc chloride to prevent termites
Excess of copper in human being cause death called wilson
Calcium hydride is called hydrolith
Calcium hydride is used to prepare fire proof and water proof clothes
Titanium is called strategic metals because it is light than iron
Group 1st element are called alkali metals because its hydroxides are alkaline whereas gruop 2nd element are callend alkaline earth metals
Potassium carbonate is known as pearl ash
Selenium metal is used in photo electric cell
Galium metal is liquid at room temprature
Palladium metal is used in aeroplane
Silver and copper are best conductor of electricity
Oxides of metals are alkaline
Lithium is the lightest and the most reductant element
Onion and garlic have odour due to potassium
Cadmium rod is used in nuclear reactiors to slow down the speed of neutron
Barium sulphate is used as barium meal in x-ray of stomach
Auric chloride is used to make antevenome needles
Mercury is also known as quick silver mercury is kept in iron vessles because it does not make amalgams with iron
Lead oxide is also called litharge. It is an atmospheric oxide it is used in rubber industries In manifacturing of storage and flints glass
Anaemia is caused due to deficiency of iron in the body while excess of iron in the body may cause siderosis
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