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MATERIALS - Coggle Diagram
MATERIALS
Properties of material
A material's properties determine
what it can do
classes of materials
Other materials
there are a lot of other materials
for example
copper
alluminium
ceramics
Plastic
plastic is a new material, we only started to use plastic only a hundread years ago
there are two types of plastic
thermoplastic
thermoset
Wood
People have used wood
to make things for thousands of years
there are two different tipe of wood
softwood
hardwood
Metal
There are three tipes of metal
ferrous
they contain iron
non-ferrous
they don't contain iron
alloys
they contain more than one metal