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Discussion Forum : Chemistry - Section 1 (Q.No. 40)
40.
The first metal used by man was
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Shaheen said:
4 years ago
Copper was first used by man over 10,000 years ago. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq has been dated about 8700 B.C.
For nearly, five millennia copper was the only metal known to man, and thus had all the metal applications.
For nearly, five millennia copper was the only metal known to man, and thus had all the metal applications.
Tenzin said:
1 decade ago
In the starting of human civilization like Indus valley civilization the metal firstly used by man was copper, that time iron and gold were not known to those men. It is the starting metal of human civilization.
Mr. said:
1 decade ago
But when we read history there is no copper age there is bronze age. So answer must be bronze.
Ya it is true that bronze is the other name of copper but according to question answer must be bronze not copper.
Ya it is true that bronze is the other name of copper but according to question answer must be bronze not copper.
Amartya Srivastava said:
7 years ago
Bronze in is not a pure metal.
It's Cu +Zn. The Harappan culture uses many underground things made of copper. So copper is the right answer.
It's Cu +Zn. The Harappan culture uses many underground things made of copper. So copper is the right answer.
Karthikeyan.s said:
1 decade ago
Cu is first using metal at the time none of the metal can discovered by human.
Indian history Cu period is 1st one.
Indian history Cu period is 1st one.
Biafran said:
9 years ago
I think bronze is the answer because we have many histories of a man with man.
Lipsa Sahoo said:
2 years ago
Bronze is an alloy, a mixture of copper and tin. Hence, the answer is copper.
Adeosun Dotun said:
3 years ago
Bronze is an alloy, not purely metal therefore the answer should be Copper.
Vicks said:
10 years ago
That's why Indus valley civilization is sometimes known as cathodic age.
Ammu said:
8 years ago
Copper is correct, bronze is an alloy of mainly cu.
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