Download or read book Metals in the Service of Man written by Arthur Street and published by Penguin Uk. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey describes the essential part played in our lives at home and in industry and civilization, by metals as common as iron and as rare as praseodymium. The distribution of metals is discussed, with an analysis of the Earth's crust and descriptions of the mining and smelting of metallic ores and of the blending of metals to form alloys.