In the 2000s Briers was the curmudgeonly and extravagant father Hector MacDonald in the BBC television programme Monarch of the Glen (2000-05), appearing in series 1,2,3 & 7. He appeared in other programmes, see Later Career.
(mal'Ä-Ä-bÄl) Capable of being shaped by being beaten or by pressure; a property of certain metals such as gold and silver. [L. malleus, a hammer] susceptible of being beaten out into a thin plate. malleable retractor.
Gold is both malleable and ductile. Gold is a heavy metal (density 19.3 g cm -3) and one gram of gold can be hammered out into a thin sheet of gold a metre in area, and just 230 atoms or so thick.