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Why don’t metals break when hit with hammer

Why don’t metals break when hit with hammer
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Why don’t metals break when hit with hammer

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Because metallic bonds involve all of the metal atoms in a piece of metal sharing all of their valence electrons with "delocalized" bonds.

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