Year 12 Chemistry Preliminary Assessment Task 2: The Chemical Earth And Metals

You work for an aeronautical company who wants to stay ahead of the compettion and find out as much as they can about the historical and current use of metals. This knowledge helps the company when they are deciding which metals should be used for the different jobs. Your boss has asked you to find out the following information:
Outline the use of a metal based on the properties of hardness, malleability and reactivity:
Copper was the first the metal to be extracted from its minerals and was the first metal to be used by humans. The period in which copper was readily used was regarded as…