What's iron and What'e metal?
Are metal and metalic different?
2007-07-07 07:15:31 · 3 answers · asked by peopleme 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Iron is a metal.
There are over 75 types of metals, many of which always occur as a compound with something else in nature.
Metallic means referring to a metal.
A short list: gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, titanium, tungsten, sodium, calcium, potassium, beryllium, lithium, platinum, tin, uranium, zinc, and many more
2007-07-07 13:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
75% of the elements known to man are metals. Metal is the noun. Metallic is the adjective. Iron is just one of the metals in the Periodic Table - but a very common one.
2007-07-07 07:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by Gervald F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
iron is an element...it is one of the transition metals in the periodic table....so it's a metal....and there are lots of metals...metallic means that it has the characteristics of a metal
2007-07-11 02:45:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋