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A metal is a chemical element that readily conducts electricity and heat, forms cations, and bonds ionically with non-metals.

Metal may also refer to:

• Metal (Wu Xing) one of the five Wu Xing
• Metal (pavement), or road metal, the crushed rock used for railway roadbeds and embankments
• Metallicity, the proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium in matter
• Metals, two of the seven basic tinctures in heraldry
• Metal Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, a township in Pennsylvania, United States

Metal also has a number of uses in music:

• Heavy metal music, often referred to simply as "metal"
• Metal (Annihilator album)
• Metal (Preston Reed album)
• Metal (Manilla Road album)
• "Metal", a song on Gary Numan's album The Pleasure Principle
• The Metal, a song on Tenacious D's album The Pick of Destiny
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, a documentary

[edit] See also

• Heavy metal (disambiguation)
• Super metals

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