WHy does copper need to be heated before you can make it into something!?
You need a stone pickaxe or higher to mine iron ore .
You can get iron ore by using an iron+ pickaxe and enchanting it with a silk touch and mining the ore. Or, you can get it from creative mode.
Not quite sure what exactly you're trying to ask but in order to mine iron ore you need at least a stone pickaxe which is made from Cobblestone. To get iron itself, you smelt it in a furnace and to make a iron block you place iron in each space in your crafting table.
Because the atoms are to close together when it is in a solid form.when you heat it into a liquid the atoms move more freely therefore it is easier to shape.
Copper is a metal. Most metals have a very high melting point and are solids at room temperature. Copper is highly malleable and ductile (that means it can be bent and made into thin wires and sheets). To make it into something, you have to have to melt it because as a solid it is rigid and can't be poured into a mould or bent highly, etc. When you melt it, the copper atoms move farther apart since they gain kinetic energy and become a fluid. After they become a fluid, they are able to flow and can be made into stuff easily. In a layman's view, copper (or any metal for that matter of fact) has to be melted before it can be made into stuff because it can flow around. You can melt it, put it into a mould and then it takes the shape of the mould when it solidifies. For Example, you take candle wax. It melts off the candle and falls on the candle holder. It then cools down and solidifies, taking the shape of a droplet when it fell down. The candle wax became a perfect droplet shaped thing, but was originally a part of a cylindrical candle.
You can get iron ore by using an iron+ pickaxe and enchanting it with a silk touch and mining the ore. Or, you can get it from creative mode.
Not quite sure what exactly you're trying to ask but in order to mine iron ore you need at least a stone pickaxe which is made from Cobblestone. To get iron itself, you smelt it in a furnace and to make a iron block you place iron in each space in your crafting table.
Because the atoms are to close together when it is in a solid form.when you heat it into a liquid the atoms move more freely therefore it is easier to shape.
Copper is a metal. Most metals have a very high melting point and are solids at room temperature. Copper is highly malleable and ductile (that means it can be bent and made into thin wires and sheets). To make it into something, you have to have to melt it because as a solid it is rigid and can't be poured into a mould or bent highly, etc. When you melt it, the copper atoms move farther apart since they gain kinetic energy and become a fluid. After they become a fluid, they are able to flow and can be made into stuff easily. In a layman's view, copper (or any metal for that matter of fact) has to be melted before it can be made into stuff because it can flow around. You can melt it, put it into a mould and then it takes the shape of the mould when it solidifies. For Example, you take candle wax. It melts off the candle and falls on the candle holder. It then cools down and solidifies, taking the shape of a droplet when it fell down. The candle wax became a perfect droplet shaped thing, but was originally a part of a cylindrical candle.
You need a stone pickaxe or higher to mine iron ore .
