Question

A) What characteristics of physical properties distinguish metals from nonmetals?

B) Where are metals and nonmetals located on the periodic table?

C) Using what you know about the properties of metals and nonmetals, explain why metals are good materials to use for cooking pans and nonmetals are good materials for sleeping bags and coolers.

Answer 1

The answer to your question is:

Step-by-step explanation:

a)

Metals: are shiny, malleable and ductile, they can conduct electricity and heat, form cations in aqueous solutions.

Nonmetals: non-lustrous, brittle, not good conductors of heat and electricity, form anions in aqueous solutions.

b)

Metals are located in the left side of the periodic table

Nonmetals are located in the right side of the periodic table.

c)

Metal are use to make pans because they are good conductors of heat and also are malleable and ductile.

Nonmetals are used to make sleeping bags and coolers because they do not conduct heat so they can isolate matter.