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Human beings have developed materials to satisfy our needs for housing, transportation, and other aspects of modern life. Metallurgy science has expanded to include physical metallurgy, extraction metallurgy, and process metallurgy. Studying metallurgy has provided humanity with useful alloys for both destructive and constructive purposes. Understanding materials resources and properties allows engineers to select the most appropriate material for a given application while using minimal material and causing minimal pollution. For example, plastic is used for the outer casing of electrical connectors because it is a good electrical insulator, prevents electric shock, and is cheap, tough, and easily molded.

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Ishi

Human beings have developed materials to satisfy our needs for housing, transportation, and other aspects of modern life. Metallurgy science has expanded to include physical metallurgy, extraction metallurgy, and process metallurgy. Studying metallurgy has provided humanity with useful alloys for both destructive and constructive purposes. Understanding materials resources and properties allows engineers to select the most appropriate material for a given application while using minimal material and causing minimal pollution. For example, plastic is used for the outer casing of electrical connectors because it is a good electrical insulator, prevents electric shock, and is cheap, tough, and easily molded.

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features between human begins and other mammals has

been the ability to use and develop materials to satisfy our human
requirements. Nowadays we use many types of materials, fashioned in
many different ways, to satisfy our requirements for housing, heating,
furniture, clothes, transportation, entertainment, medical care, defense
and all the other trappings of a modern, civilised society.
Most materials doesn't exist in its pure shape , it is always exist as a
ores . During the present century the scope of metallurgical science has
expanded enormously , so that the subject can now be studied under the
following headings :
a) Physical metallurgy
b) Extraction metallurgy
c) Process metallurgy
In the recent years studying the metallurgy science gave to humanity an
ever growing range of useful alloys. Whilst many of these alloys are put
to purposes of destruction, we must not forget that others have
contributed to the material progress of mankind and to his domestic
comfort.
This understanding of the materials resources and nature enable the
engineers to select the most appropriate materials and to use them with
greatest efficiency in minimum quantities whilst causing minimum
pollution in their extraction, refinement and manufacture.
Selection of materials :
Lets now start by looking at the basic requirements for selecting
materials that are suitable for a particular application. For example
figure 1 shows a connecter joining electric cables. The plastic casing has
been partly cut away to show the metal connector. Plastic is used for the
outer casing because it is a good electrical insulator and prevents electric
shock if a person touches it. It also prevents the conductors touching each
other and causing a short circuit. As well as being a good insulator the
plastic is cheap, tough, and easily moulded

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