Glint introduces metals vs non-metals and the adventure ahead.

Lustre, malleability, ductility, conductivity, and sonorous metals — with gold and silver as stars.

Mercury, graphite, iodine, diamond, and soft sodium break the usual rules.

Metal oxides, reactivity with air, kerosene storage, and amphoteric Al₂O₃ and ZnO.

How metals react with water and dilute acids, plus the nitric acid special case.

The full reactivity series and displacement reactions like zinc in copper sulphate.

How metals and non-metals form ionic compounds like MgCl₂ and why molten salt conducts.

Ores, gangue, roasting, calcination, thermit reaction, and electrolytic reduction.

Electrolytic refining, anode mud, rusting, and ways to stop corrosion.

Brass, bronze, steel, stainless steel, solder, amalgams — and Glint’s final checklist.