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This text describes the properties of metals and how they are structured at a microscopic level. Some key points about the structure and properties of metals include: * Metallic bonding involves the delocalization of electrons throughout the metal. * This type of bonding leads to many of the unique properties of metals, including their ability to conduct electricity and heat and their ductility and malleability. * The crystal structure of a metal determines its mechanical and thermal properties. * Different metals can have different crystal structures based on temperature. Additionally, this text highlights the properties that make metals relatively good electrical and thermal conductors, which are attributed to the mobility of electrons in the electron cloud. Metals also tend to be good conductors because they contain "free" or conduction electrons in their atomic structure. The energy level corresponding to these free electrons coincides with that for an electrical current in a wire (ie. at ground potential), hence there is relatively little energy gap involved.