We use materials to make things. When we speak about material, we mean physical substances.

We call cloth, for making clothes, material. Raw materials are materials before we process them - change them into something different.

Information can be material. For example, a writer looks for material (ideas and facts) when writing a book.

Some important materials

• Metals
  • Steel
  • Aluminum
  • Copper
• Polymers
  • Rubber
  • Plastic
• Ceramics
• Glass
• Portland cement
• Stone
• Textiles
  • Cotton fabric
  • Wool fabric
• Bio-based materials
  • Leather
  • Bone
  • Paper
  • Lumber/wood
• Biomaterials
• Composites
  • Fiberglass
  • Concrete

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