Which property describes the ability to be drawn into a wire?

• A. Ductility
• B. Malleability
• C. Dipole
• D. Solvent

Answer: (A)

Drawing a material into a wire tests its ability to plastically deform in tension. The term for this property is ductility. Ductile materials, especially metals, can stretch into long shapes because their crystal lattices allow dislocations to glide and layers of atoms to slide past one another as the material is pulled. This elongation can continue under stress until fracture rather than cracking. Malleability is related but refers to shaping a material into sheets under compressive forces, not drawing into a wire. A dipole concerns molecular polarity, and a solvent is a substance that dissolves solutes. So the feature that best describes the ability to be drawn into a wire is ductility.