Uses of metals and nonmetals

Uses of metals 

1. Iron and steel are used for making machinery, Ships and agricultural implements and also used in pipes, automobiles, trains etc.,

2. Copper is extensively used for making electrical appliances and is also used for making alloys like brass and bronze. 

3. Aluminium is used for making utensils, electric cables, aluminium foil and aluminium paint.

4. Widely used alloys, duralumin and magnalium contains aluminium.

5. Zinc is used to protect iron from rusting. 

6. Lead is used in storage batteries.

7. Tin is used in tinning of cooking utensils. 

8. Some metals are used as catalysts in chemical reactions.

Uses of nonmetals

1. Coal is one of the widely used fossil fuels.

2. Diamond and graphite have variety of applications.

3. Phosphorus is used in manufacture of fertilizers and fire works.

4. Phosphorus is one of the essential plant nutrients and also important for bones and teeth of animals.

5. Sulphur is used as fungicide. It is also used in vulcanisation of rubber.

6. Silicon, being a semiconductor, is used in transistors. It is used to prepare alloys like silicon bronze to make telephone wires.