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What are the softest metals?



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S. Sergius

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Answered Jan 05, 2021

Gold is incredibly soft and effortless to bend, and gold is one of the most delicate solid metals, so gold is often mixed with other metals when gold is in jewelry. Two different metals that exist at room temperature are mercury and gallium.

Gallium melts at 85.57 degrees Fahrenheit, and since they are room temperature liquids, they are the softest metals. The softest metal is cesium, which is so delicate it can be cut with a butter knife. Cesium melts at a fairly low temperature of 28.4 degrees Celsius.

A list of soft metals includes lead, gold, silver, tin, zinc, aluminum, thorium, copper, brass, and bronze. Gold, silver, and copper are just below cesium in terms of being the softest metals.

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K. Galatia

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Answered Jan 05, 2021

Cesium is the softest metal on earth. Cesium is a chemical element with an atomic number of 55 and a symbol of Cc. Cesium is soft and is liquid or almost liquid at room temperature.

It is gold in color Lead is also one of the softest metals on your earth. Cesium can be used as a drilling fluid. They are also used to make optical glass as a catalyst promoter, in vacuum tubes, and in radiation monitoring equipment.

Cesium can cause burn when exposed; it sometimes lead to death, acute radiation, or sickness. Cesium has the possibility of making someone prone to cancer.

The soft metals can be cut with a knife. People also take mercury to be one of the softest metals because, at room temperature, it is liquid.

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Answered Dec 30, 2020

The Moh’s hardness scale, a list of soft metals include lead, gold, silver, tin, zinc, aluminum, thorium, copper, brass, and bronze. Gallium could also be considered a soft metal as it melts at 85.57 degrees Fahrenheit. Mercury is a metal that is liquefied at room temperature.

The metal’s softness is what makes it valuable. The softness of copper allows it to be pulled into thin wires and made into flexible and rigid plumbing pipes. Copper is too soft for any other use, but it can be alloyed to make stronger metals such as brass and bronze. Lead can be fashioned into plumbing pipes, and some pipes have been in use since the time of the Roman emperors.

Lead is so yielding that it can be easily repaired by hammering or by the application of molten lead. It can be melted over a regular fire. It has also been said that cesium is the softest metal, and because of its soft texture, it can be cut with a butter knife.

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Answered Dec 23, 2020

There are different types of metals that can be found right now, and they have differences not only in how hard they are to acquire but their different properties. There are some metals that are soft. Cesium is known to be the softest metal to exist right now. Another popular option is to lead.

The thing about soft metals is that they can easily be mixed with other types of metals, so that they will become harder. They are also very flexible, especially when compared to the harder type of metals that will take longer to melt. Other examples of soft metals are gallium, gold, and silver.

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Samantha Stewart

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Answered Dec 18, 2020

Most metals are soft, usually at room temperature. You can dent some of them with your fingers, while others can easily be cut with a knife. One of the softest metals people know of is Mercury. This reason is that it exists naturally as a liquid. Although most of these metals are soft, their degree of softness differs.

Apart from mercury, Group1 metals are soft metals; they are examples of metals that you can dent just with your finger. Examples of these metals are Cesium, potassium, lithium, rubidium, sodium. Some metals in group ll, such as calcium and barium, are pretty soft.

Other soft metals include lead, tungsten, platinum, iron, chromium, titanium, etc. While most people will always go for Mercury as the softest metal at room temperature, Cesium is arguably the softest metal. Although most of these metals are soft at room temperature, they can be hardened with heat.

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Answered Dec 16, 2020

Cesium is the softest metal on Earth, and this metal is so soft that it can be cut with a dull knife, and melts at 83.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Gold, silver, and copper are other malleable metals that are considered soft, but they are much harder than Cesium. According to the Mohs hardness scale, the softest metals include lead, gold, silver, tin, zinc, aluminum, thorium, copper, brass, and bronze. Gallium may also be considered a soft metal, as it melts at 85.57 degrees Fahrenheit. Pure aluminum is soft, and it is too soft to be especially useful in most applications. It does, however, have fierce corrosion resistance. For any mechanical use, aluminum must be alloyed with other metals to make it stronger. Tin is also soft, but it is very corrosion resistant. It is used for metallic paste products.
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