In My House

Instructions
1. Select 10 objects that you commonly use in your house.
2. Identify the minerals or metals used in these objects.
3. Identify properties of each metal which make them
suitable for use in this object.
Object Metals Useful Properties
Wall Paint
Manesium and
!itanium
M"# is used in
$reworks
!I#stron as steel but
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Laptop and
Mobile Phone (ickel and )obalt
(I# easy to clean
)*#used in paints and
jet enines
Mirror Sli+er
S,#e-cellent conductor
of heat and electricity
Synthetic
Carpet .etroleum
./#formed from
decayed oranic
material
Window Frames0luminum
0I#liht1 but stron
Fiberglass
nsulation Silica Sand
SS#used in toothpaste
Plaster Walls "ypsum "2#deposited in lakes
Sapphire
!ec"lace Sapphire S0#+olcanic in oriin
#old $ing "old
"*#rust and corrosion
resistant
Plumbing Pipes )opper )*#soft but touh
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