Download or read book Uses of Metals and Metallic Minerals written by K. K. Chatterjee and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: The book is much more than a mere list of uses of the metals and metallic minerals, which historically and contemporarily occupy a very important place in the civilization of human race and in the day-to-day human life. Uses of metals have been projected along with their backward linkages with history, recovery from minerals and particular sets of physical/chemical characteristics and with their forward linkages with the status and trends in waste utilization and substitution wherever relevant. Apart from extraction of metals, the direct industrial uses of the metallic mineral.