Malleability
A property possessed by metals which renders them capable of being beaten out with a hammer or pressed into plates between rollers. Gold surpasses all metals in malleability, being capable of reduction into films not exceeding the 200,000th of an inch in thickness, whilst iron has been rolled into sheets less than the 2500th of an inch in thickness. The malleability of metals is here given in their respective order of value, beginning with the highest: Gold, silver, copper, tin, cadmium, platinum, lead, zinc, iron, nickel, palladium. See DUCTILITY; METALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.