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what is called malleable .

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A substance is called malleable, if it can be hammered into thin sheets without breaking. Metals can be beaten into thin sheets without breaking, hence metals are malleable. For eg: gold, silver, aluminium etc. Non-metals, on the other hand are not malleable.

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