The matter It encompasses the total of the compositions that make up the things that surround us, or those that we are not capable of perceiving. It can be affirmed, then, that everything that occupies space is matter, and necessarily has a property called mass and also has inertia.
The chemistry and the physical are the disciplines that gave the greatest emphasis to the study of matter, the first in terms of their reactions when they manifest themselves together (in most cases), while physics analyzing the properties linked to movements, deformations or changes state of matter.
The human being is part of the matter, as it has the characteristics of such and takes up space. However, he has designed his own terminology for when matter is made available to him, in order to transform it based on his circumstantial needs: it is clear that, in addition to the transformations that the earth and its content have undergone for natural reasons, it was the human being is responsible for a large part of these changes. When matter is made available to man, it is called material.
See also: Properties of matter
The idea of materials is used in many cases when talking about a restricted area of certain objects. For example, school materials are those that a student needs to attend school, while work materials in a construction will be those needed by those who work to perform their task.
When you talk about "materials" to dry, it is referring to the total of those found in nature, or those that man transformed but serve as a starting point for the realization of many other new materials.
Some properties are common to all materials, such as resistance, which is the ability to resist weight without breaking, flexibility, which is the ability to bend without breaking, or elasticity, which is the ability to deform and then return to its original state. However, materials are roughly classified between natural and man-made.
The natural materials they are those that exist in a raw state in nature. It is possible that they only become useful to man when they undergo a purification process, and they will not therefore cease to be natural. Natural materials are also called natural resources, and they can owe their biological origin to an animal, a plant or a mineral.
Some of the natural resources They have the characteristic of being renewed in a very fast frequency of time and others do not reach their renewal to the demand that the human being makes of them: in this sense it is that many times they are alerted about their future availability. Here is a list of some natural materials:
- Iron
- Wood
- Earth
- Gold
- Zinc
- Mercury
- Water
- Silver
- Peridot
- Cast
- Coal
- Cobalt
- Platinum
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Mushrooms
- Uranium
- Petroleum
- Marble
- Sand
The artificial materials They are those manufactured by humans from natural sources. Like them, sometimes they have functionalities of their own, but they become material when they are useful for other processes. The origin of the natural environment always appears, although the transformation processes are modified over time so that costs are progressively reduced. Here are some artificial materials:
- Plastic
- Paperboard
- Stoneware
- Stainless steel
- Brass
- Polyester
- Lycra
- White gold
- Neoprene
- Bronze
- Glass
- Ceramics
- Paper
- Sterling silver
- Nylon
- Porcelain
- Crockery
- Concrete
- Rubber
- Terracotta
