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.
This is different from ionic bonding (where no electrons are shared at all) and covalent bonding (where the bonds exist only between two atoms). A metal that you can hammer into thin sheets is malleable. Gold, silver, aluminum, iron, and copper are malleable. Non-malleable metals such as tin will break apart when struck by a hammer. A metal behaves as an array of metal ions or kernels immersed in a âseaâ of mobile valence electrons. Metallic bonds consist of the attractions of the ions to the surrounding electrons.