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| Material Science Technology | A course about the materials in our lives and how they can be manipulated. |
| Materials | relating to, derived from, or consisting of matter |
| Metals | any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides |
| Ceramic | of or relating to the manufacture of any product (as earthenware, porcelain, or brick) made essentially from a nonmetallic mineral (as clay) by firing at a high temperature,Greek keramikos, from keramos potter's clay |
| Polymer | from Greek polymerEs having many parts, a chemical compound or mixture of compounds formed by polymerization and consisting essentially of repeating structural units |
| Composites | combining the typical or essential characteristics of individuals making up a group, a classification of solid that is composed of at least two different materials |
| Solid | neither gaseous nor liquid |
| Liquid | flowing freely like water |
| Gas | a fluid (as air) that has neither independent shape nor volume but tends to expand indefinitely |
| Plasma | a collection of charged particles (as in the atmospheres of stars or in a metal) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and exhibiting some properties of a gas but differing from a gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic field |
| Characteristic | a distinguishing trait, quality, or property |
| Science | knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena |
| Technology | the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area : |
| Stone Age | the first known period of prehistoric human culture characterized by the use of stone tools |
| Bronze Age | the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 B.C. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age |
| Iron Age | the period of human culture characterized by the smelting of iron and its use in industry beginning somewhat before 1000 B.C. in western Asia and Egypt |
| Chemistry | a science that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo |
| Physics | a science that deals with matter and energy and their interactions |
| Elements | any of more than 100 fundamental substances that consist of atoms of only one kind and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
| Alloys | a substance composed of two or more metals or of a metal and a nonmetal intimately united usually by being fused together and dissolving in each other when molten |
| Compound | a distinct substance formed by chemical union of two or more ingredients in definite proportion by weight |
| Mixture | a portion of matter consisting of two or more components in varying proportions that retain their own properties |
| Nonmetals | A type of element that does not exhibit most of the properties of metals |
| Semimetal | a metalloid, an element located on the border between metals and nonmetals |
| Malleable | capable of being hammered or rolled into a sheet |
| Ductile | capable of being drawn into a wire |
| Matter | material substance that occupies space, has mass, and is composed predominantly of atoms consisting of protons, neutrons, and electrons, that constitutes the observable universe, and that is interconvertible with energy |
| Crystalline | a type of solid characterized by an orderly arrangement of atomic particles |
| Amorphous | A type of substance whose atomic-sized particles have no regular, predictable long range order |
