Chemistry·Materials · NSSCO 3.1
Types of materials
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Everything around you is made of a material — wood, metal, glass, plastic. Learn to classify materials into their families, tell natural from synthetic, and link each one to the kind of bonding inside it, from metallic bonds to giant covalent structures and polymers.
What you'll learn in this lesson
By the end you should be able to (NSSCO Chemistry 3.1):
- Classify materials into categories such as wood, metals, glasses, ceramics, concrete, plastics and fibres, and identify examples in the local environment
- Distinguish between materials that occur naturally and those that are synthetic
- Identify the types of bonding in different materials
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