what is sonorous?

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Ishan Goyal answered this

the physical property of a metal to produce a ringing sound when striked on a hard surface is known as sonority. hence the metal is said to be sonorous. thats why our school bells are made of metals.

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Kanchana Maniilal answered this

loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound.

Ishan Goyal answered this

metals have sonorosity. when the metal is bitted by any other metal or non metal than a sound comes that sound is sonsrosity of metal.

Ishan Goyal answered this

A substance is said to be sonorous, if it is capable of producing sound. Metals are generally sonorous 1.e., they produce sound on being struck by some thing.

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Ishan Goyal answered this

Sonority is the property of a substance to produce sound when collide together. Metals are sonorous and produce sound when struck together in solid state.

Electron bonding in metals is highly delocalized, due to their very low electronegativity. This means that when struck, the electron cloud moves extremely easily - there is very little energy dissipated. This allows the incoming kinetic energy to be easily propagated as a form of disequilibrium - a wave.

Now, it should be noted that this is not in all metals - it is in sheet metals, and they have to be of relatively low density. High-density metals will not as easily propagate the kinetic energy, due to additional atomic collisions damping the effect.