Which are more malleable: metals or nonmetals?

Answer 1

Malleability is a fundamental metallic property.

Malleability, the ability of a material to be hammered out into a sheet (from the Latin, #"malleus, hammer"#, is a fundamental property of metals. Solid non-metals, e.g. diamond, sulfur, iodine, do not tend to have this property.

Metallic bonding, or positive ions in an electron sea, is responsible for the malleability property, which allows nuclei to move relative to one another while maintaining their bond to the electrons.

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Answer 2

Kai Bowman

The ability of a material to be hammered or rolled into thin sheets without breaking is known as malleability, and metals have metallic bonding, which makes it easy for atoms to slide past one another under pressure. Nonmetals, on the other hand, frequently have covalent or ionic bonds that make them brittle and less malleable.

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