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What is the definition of metals?

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Metal is a solid material that conducts heat & electricity, hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile.
Metals are substances that have the tendency to donate electrons.

They are electropositive in nature.
Definition of Metal. : Any opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides.


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