The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

10.3 - I Love Shiny Things
Read a book with the name of a metal in the title. The name of the metal must stand alone and match exactly. A list of metals for purposes of this task is found in post 2.
Examples: Chain of Gold, The Iron King, The Women of the Copper Country.

Nonferrous Metals
copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, tin, nickel, magnesium, antimony,cobalt, mercury

Ferrous metals
iron, manganese and chromium

Noble metals
gold, silver, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, osmium

Light nonferrous metals
aluminum, magnesium, sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium,barium

Heavy nonferrous metals
copper, nickel, lead, zinc, cobalt, tin, antimony, mercury, cadmium, bismuth

Rare refractory metals
zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, hafniumRare light metal lithium, rubidium, beryllium, cesium, titanium

Scattered metals
gallium, indium, thallium, germanium

Scattered radioactive metals
radium, uranium, plutonium, francium, polonium, thorium

Rare earth metals
lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium,samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandiumandyttrium

Semimetals
silicon, selenium, tellurium, arsenic and boron

Reserved

Reserved

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Are you requiring pure metals for this task or would alloys such as steel count?

Jayne wrote: "Are you requiring pure metals for this task or would alloys such as steel count?"

The list of metals for the task is in post 2.

Can I just check that this set of short stories would be ok (COPPER):

Lucy-Bookworm wrote: "Can I just check that this set of short stories would be ok (COPPER):

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copper is on the list of metals.