Metal-Based Materials
Design & Technology: AQA GCSE, topic 4.1.1
Metal-Based Materials
Metal-based materials are used for a variety of different applications.
Advantages of metals
- Metal offers strength advantages in the construction and engineering trade.
- Metal works with a high degree of accuracy.
Categories of metals
- Metal can be classified into three categories: ferrous, non-ferrous, and alloys.
- Alloys are a combination of two or more metals.
Origin of metals
- Metals originate from a type of rock called ore.
- Ores contain metals in their purest form.
- Large furnaces are used to obtain metals from ores.
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