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Top 10 Favorite Materials

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My Top 10 Favorite Materials There are a vast number of materials on Earth but out of all of them, these are my personal top 10 favorites in no specific order: 1) Steel     Processing: Casting     Structure: BCC     Properties: Melting temperature = 1370 °C     Application: Construction materials (screws or nails), car bodies     Reference: http://www.steel.org/making-steel/how-its-made/processes.aspx 2) Copper     Processing: Smelting     Structure: FCC     Properties: Melting temperature = 1085 °C, Heat of Fusion = 13.26 kJ/mol     Application: Wires     Reference:          http://www.wmrc.uiuc.edu/main_sections/info_services/library_docs/manuals/primmetals/Chapter5.htm     Application: Windows     Reference: https://www.aisglass.com/glass-manufacturing-process 4) Cardboard     Processing: Mecha...