专业英语作业--Metals

《专业英语作业--Metals》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在教育资源-天天文库。

1、Lesson1MetalsTheuseofmetalshasalwaysbeenakeyfactorinthedevelopmentofthesocialsystemsofman.Oftheroughly100basicelementsofwhichallmatteriscomposed,abouthalfareclassifiedasmetals.Thedistinctionbetweenametalandanonmetalisnotalwaysclear-cut.Themostbasicdefinitioncentersaroundthetypeofbondingexis

2、tingbetweentheatomsoftheelement,andaroundthecharacteristicsofcertainoftheelectronsassociatedwiththeseatoms.Inamorepracticalway,however,ametalcanbedefinedasanelementwhichhasaparticularpackageofproperties.Metalsarecrystallinewheninthesolidstateand,withfewexceptions(e.g.mercury),aresolidatambi

3、enttemperatures.Theyaregoodconductorsofheatandelectricityandareopaquetolight.Theyusuallyhaveacomparativelyhighdensity.Manymetalsareductile-thatis,theirshapecanbechangedpermanentlybytheapplicationofaforcewithoutbreaking.Theforcesrequiredtocausethisdeformationandthoserequiredtobreakorfracture

4、ametalarecomparativelyhigh,although,thefractureforcesisnotnearlyashighaswouldbeexpectedfromsimpleconsiderationoftheforcesrequiredtotearaparttheatomsofthemetal.Oneofthemoresignificantofthesecharacteristicsfromourpointofviewisthatofcrystallinity.Acrystallinesolidisoneinwhichtheconstituentatom

5、sarelocatedinaregularthree-dimensionalarrayasiftheywerelocatedatthecornersofthesquaresofathree-dimensionalchessboard.Thespacingoftheatomsinthearrayisofthesameorderasthesizeoftheatoms,theactualspacingbeingacharacteristicoftheparticularmetal.Thedirectionsoftheaxesofthearraydefinetheorientatio

6、nofthecrystalinspace.Themetalscommonlyusedinengineeringpracticearecomposedofalargenumberofsuchcrystals,calledgrains.Inthemostgeneralcase,thecrystalsofthevariousgrainsarerandomlyorientedinspace.Thegrainsareeverywhereinintimatecontactwithoneanotherandjoinedtogetheronanatomicscale.Theregionatw

7、hichtheyjoinisknownasagrainboundary.Anabsolutelypuremetal(i.e.onecomposedofonlyonetypeofatom)hasneverbeenproduced.Engineerswouldnotbeparticularlyinterestedinsuchametalevenifitweretobeproduced,becauseitwouldbesoftandweak.Themetalsusedcommerciallyinevitabl