Question

Aluminium can be beaten into sheets but carbon cannot.why
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Answer 1

Answer:

Ans:

Aluminium foils are used to wrap food items because aluminium being a soft malleable metal it can be beaten to in sheets to form thin wrapping sheets. Moreover it does not react with food items.

Explanation:

Zinc can be beaten into thin sheets because zinc is a metal rest of them are non metals.The property of metals by which they can be beaten into thin sheets is called malleability. Most metals are malleable. Gold and silver are the best malleable metals and can be hammered into very fine sheets or foils.