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Exploring Metals: Properties, Applications, and History in Science Education

Discover the fascinating world of metals through their properties, applications, and historical significance. Explore topics such as metallic bonding, thermal expansion, and crystal structures in this comprehensive guide. Learn about commercial and medical applications of metals, including their role in cancer treatment. Uncover the history of metallurgy from ancient civilizations to modern steel production. Delve into the disadvantages of metals, including corrosion, and appreciate the enduring legacy of metals in shaping human history and progress.

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Exploring Metals: Properties, Applications, and History in Science Education

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  1. Mathematics and Science in Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa

  2. METALS MATERIAL SCIENCE Introduction to

  3. Stock Market World Stability

  4. Atomic Structure

  5. Metallic Bonding “Sea of Electrons”

  6. Properties of Metals Metals are strong.

  7. Properties of Metals Metals have a lustrous look when polished.

  8. Properties of Metals Metals are flexible.

  9. Properties of Metals Metals are malleable.

  10. Properties of Metals Metals expand when heated.

  11. Thermal Expansion

  12. Properties of Metals Metals have a very high conductivity rate of heat and electricity.

  13. Commercial Applications Copper Aluminum Cast Iron Steel Cookware

  14. Medical Applications Using laser light, Ohio University scientists uses gold nanoparticles to kill cancer tumors.

  15. Medical Applications Metal nanoparticles, such as gold, can heat an area up to 1,000 times its size.

  16. Medical Applications A short peptide is attached to the nanospheres of gold that enabled them to bind to tumor cells.

  17. Medical Applications Using a near-infrared light from a laser, heat the gold nanospheres and selectively kill the cancer cells to which the particles were bound.

  18. Electrical Applications

  19. Properties of Metals Certain metals can be magnetic.

  20. Non-Magnetic Metals

  21. Magnetic Metals

  22. Properties of Metals Metals are crystalline in structure.

  23. Crystal Structures of Metals • Aluminum FCC • Cadmium HCP • Chromium BCC • Cobalt HCP • Copper FCC • Gold FCC • Iron BCC • Lead FCC • Magnesium HCP • Nickel FCC • Niobium BCC • Platinum FCC • Polonium Cubic • Silver FCC • Titanium HCP • Vanadium BCC • Zinc HCP • Zirconium HCP

  24. Disadvantages of Metals Metals corrode!

  25. Unit #1: History of Metals

  26. Metallurgy Metallurgy is one of the oldest applied sciences. The history of metals is closely linked to that of coins and gemstones.

  27. Metallurgy As early as 3400 B.C., at the beginning of the historical period, the Egyptians had an intimate knowledge of gold, copper ores and of processes of extracting metals.

  28. Metallurgy Metals were also known to the Mesopotamians, Greeks and the Romans.

  29. Native Metals Copper Gold Mercury Silver

  30. Native Metals Iron

  31. Native iron is easily distinguishable because it contains 6-8% nickel. Iron was available to the ancients in small amounts from meteors.

  32. Copper Age (~4000 B.C.) The first metal to be used was copper.

  33. Copper Age (~4000 B.C.) The first tools, implements & weapons were made from copper.

  34. Copper Age (~4000 B.C.) The oldest known casting in existence, a pure copper frog, was cast in Mesopotamia.

  35. Bronze Age (~3000 B.C.) Bronze was the first alloy used. Bronze = Copper & 5-10% Tin

  36. Bronze Age (~3000 B.C.) New discoveries near Ban Chiang, Thailand, indicate that bronze technology was maybe known there as early as 4500 BC!

  37. Iron Age (~2000 B.C.) Iron smelting began in Egypt.

  38. Process of Iron Smelting A mixture of iron and oxide impurities is heated to about 1,500°C. Molten iron is drawn off on one side, and slag (waste) on the other.

  39. Iron Age (~2000 B.C.) Iron weapons revolutionized warfare and iron implements did the same for farming.

  40. Iron Pillar ~ 400A.D. This iron pillar dating to 400 A.D., remains standing today in Delhi, India. Corrosion to the pillar has been minimal a skill lost to current ironworkers.

  41. Cast Iron (~800) Chinese were the first in the production of cast iron.

  42. Cast Iron (~800) Molten iron is "cast" into forms made of sand.

  43. Steel (~500)

  44. How To Smelt Iron? Wood Wood was needed as timber and it takes too much wood so smelt iron.

  45. How To Smelt Iron? Coal Although cheap and plentiful, coal contained sulphur that made the iron too brittle to be of any use.

  46. Abraham Darby In 1709, Abraham Darby finally succeeded in smelting iron with coke.

  47. 1750 Steel becomes the world’s most used material.

  48. Steel Production Today Step 1: Fe2O3(s) + 3CO(g) = 2Fe(l) + 3CO2(g)

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