Introduction

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Oldest age of materials starting 2.5 million years ago

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The stone age

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The period from 2000 BC to 1000 BC. Better quality tools and weapons with the alloy bronze

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The bronze age

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The period from 1000 BC to 1 BC. By 500 BC, more use from tools and weapons to be made in Europe

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The iron age

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Not officially referred but from the second half of the 20th century, modern culture is supported by plastic

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The plastic age

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Another name of the same period of the plastic age during which silicon technology brought big revolution of the computer

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Silicon age (present)

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Period of time where increasing demand for high quality metallic alloys and non metallic alloys

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WW2

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Strong, ductile material with high thermal and electrical conductivity. Can be opaque and reflective

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Metals

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Soft, ductile, pliable, elastic, low strength and low density. Thermal and electrical insulators that share electrons. Optically translucent or transparent

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Polymers/plastic

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Consists of compounds of metallic and nonmetallic elements. Ionic bonding is present with thermal stability. Brittle, glassy, stiff, and strong

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Ceramics

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Material with electrical properties that are intermediate between electrical conductors and insulators

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Semiconductors

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Employed in components implanted into the human body to replace diseased or damaged body parts

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Bio materials

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Able to sense changes in their environment and then respond to these changes in predetermined manners

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Smart Materials

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Design and build new structures from their atomic-level constituents, one atom or molecule at a time

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Nanomaterials

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combination that can cause cracks

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stress and salt water