Ductility
That property or texture of bodies which renders it practicable to draw them out in length while their thickness is diminished without any actual fracture of their parts, as drawing into wire. Gold is the most ductile of the metals, after which, in their order of value, as follows: silver, platinum, iron, copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, palladium, cadmium. See METALS; MALLEABILITY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.