Question

What is the difference between alloy and metal?

Answer 1

True metals are pure elements, while alloys are blends of two or more metals that have been melted together. Metals and alloys are easy to distinguish from nonmetals because they are usually shinier, heavier, and harder than most materials, and they are excellent conductors of heat and electricity.

Answer 2

An alloy is an admixture of metals, or a metal combined with one or more other elements.

For example, combining the metallic elements gold and copper produces red gold, gold and silver becomes white gold, and silver combined with copper produces sterling silver.

Whereas metal is an element

like gold