There remained, then, only two possible solutions of the question, which created two distinct parties: on one side, those who were for a monster of colossal strength; on the other, those who were for a submarine vessel of enormous motive power.
Gold is the most malleable of all metals; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, and an avoirdupois ounce into 300 square feet. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become semi-transparent.
Zinc is malleable if you heat it to between 100 degrees C and 150 degrees C; outside that temperature range it's brittle. As to whether it's ductile...no, and that's immaterial anyway because the wire would break if you made any.ell one of the physical properties of metals is being ductile and zinc is a metal so the answer is yes= not really Zinc is hard and brittle which makes it hard to stretch it. â¦ Tungsten is a metal and is to hard to even try to turn into a wire. 6 people found this useful.