National Income and Product Accounts. Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2017 (Advance Estimate), and Annual Update. Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the second quarter of 2017 (table 1), according to the advance estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.2 percent (revised).
Malleable metals. Malleability is a physical property of matter, usually metals. This property usually applies to the family groups 1 to 12 on the Modern Periodic Table of Elements. It is the ability of a solid to bend or be hammered into other shapes without breaking. Examples of malleable metals are gold, iron, copper (to a degree) and lead. Malleability is the ability of a metal to be hammered into thin sheets. Gold and silver are highly malleable.
malleability. property of a metal describing the ease with which it can be hammered, forged, pressed, or rolled into thin sheets. Metals vary in this respect; pure gold is the most malleable. Silver, copper, aluminum, lead, tin, zinc, and iron are also very malleable. Some heating usually increases malleability. Zinc, for example, at ordinary temperatures is very brittle, but is malleable in the temperature range from about 120&degC;. to 150&degC;.