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Why metals have sonorous property?

Why metals have sonorous property?
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      Platinum⭐ Gate aspirant.
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      Metals usually have low electronegativity. This allows electron bondings in metal to be highly delocalised. So think you hit a metal and the atoms or more accurately the electron cloud can easily move (vibrational motion to and fro) with dissipating minimum energy. This cause the kinetic energy to eRead more

      Metals usually have low electronegativity. This allows electron bondings in metal to be highly delocalised.

      So think you hit a metal and the atoms or more accurately the electron cloud can easily move (vibrational motion to and fro) with dissipating minimum energy. This cause the kinetic energy to easily propagate as waveform which have certain frequency producing sound.

      Thus most metals are sonorous sl, silver believed to be most.

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    2. Iron
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      Sonorous is the property of metals to create a sound on being striken upon with a hard object.

      Sonorous is the property of metals to create a sound on being striken upon with a hard object.

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    3. Gold B.TECH, NIT DURGAPUR

      Metals have high elasticity. Sound requires elasticity for high-speed propagation. Generally, in the scales we live in, wavelengths of many modes of oscillations are in centimeters thus sounds can easily have audible frequencies. Many metals are used in musical instruments to exploit their sonorityRead more

      Metals have high elasticity. Sound requires elasticity for high-speed propagation. Generally, in the scales we live in, wavelengths of many modes of oscillations are in centimeters thus sounds can easily have audible frequencies. Many metals are used in musical instruments to exploit their sonority property.

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