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Introduction

The ability to identify metals is an extremely important one. With this ability, we can correctly assign different traits, and use the metal in its most suitable environment. This is important to many industries, where metals play an increasingly large role. Determining the identity of the metal is paramount to determining what conditions to use the metal under. This seemly simple task is, however, can be quite complex, as there are many ways by which one can identify a metal, each with varying amounts of accuracy. In order to test some of these methods, thermal expansion, density, and specific heat were used to identify two small metal rods.
The overall purpose of this experiment was to identify an unknown metal using the three previously stated properties. This means that the percent error should be relatively low, meaning that there would be little difference between the values measured in our experiment and the true values of the metal.
Density was the......

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