Question

Mention one physical property each of a metal and a non metal which is exceptional to their general properties.

Answer 1

Answer:

generally metals are hard except sodium and potassium because they are soft in nature even we can cut them by knife.metals have high melting and boiling points except gallium because it will get melt when we keep it on our palm its melting point is less than our body temperature. metals are the good conductors of heat and electricity except mercury .lead.

Answer 2

Metals are usually solids . However , mercury is an exception. It is the only metal which exist as a liquid.

Non-metals are usually dull and do not possess lustre . However , an exception to this is iodine . It is a non-metal but is lustrous.