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metalloid |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Metalloid \Met"al*loid\, a. 1. Having the appearance of a metal. 2. (Chem.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Metalloid \Met"al*loid\, n. [L. metallum metal + -oid: cf F. m['e]tallo["i]de.] a Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined. b Now one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: metalloid adj : of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal; "arsenic is a metalloid element"
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