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Nonmetal
Nonmetal Non"met`al, n. (Chem.)
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the
metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic
properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine
are nonmetals.
Meaning of Nonmetal from wikipedia
- In the
context of the
periodic table a
nonmetal is a
chemical element that
mostly lacks distinctive metallic properties. They
range from
colorless gases...
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nonmetal or non-metal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Nonmetal may
refer to:
Nonmetals in the
periodic table or non-metallic elements, are...
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mining quarrying and
other industries;
Moreover "coal
mining used 66.4%,
nonmetal mining and
quarrying 13.5%,
metal mining 10.4%,
construction 7.1%, and...
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Nonmetallic material, or in
nontechnical terms a
nonmetal,
refers to
materials which are not metals.
Depending upon
context it is used in
slightly different...
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properties in between, or that are a
mixture of,
those of
metals and
nonmetals. The word
metalloid comes from the
Latin metallum ("metal") and the Gr****...
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ionization energy of
nonmetals,
which is why, in general,
metals will lose
electrons to form
positively charged ions and
nonmetals will gain electrons...
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discussing metallicity, even
though many of
those elements are
called nonmetals in chemistry. In 1802,
William Hyde
Wollaston noted the
appearance of...
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remaining nonmetals are
divided into
nonmetals, halogens, and
noble gases, with the
unnamed class being distinguished by
including nonmetals with relatively...
- the
metals occur to the left of the
nonmetals, and thus a
metal has
fewer possible valence electrons than a
nonmetal. However, a
valence electron of a metal...
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points lower than
those of the
transition metals.
Being close to the metal-
nonmetal border,
their crystalline structures tend to show
covalent or directional...
