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an element or substance that is not a metal.

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nonmetal, in physics, a substance having a finite activation energy (band gap) for electron conduction. This means that nonmetals display low (insulators) to moderate (semiconductors) bulk electrical conductivities, which increase with increasing temperature, and are subject to dielectric breakdown at high voltages and temperatures. Like metals, nonmetals may occur in the solid, liquid, or gaseous state. However, unlike metals, nonmetals display a wide range of both mechanical and optical properties, ranging from brittle to plastic and from transparent to opaque.

From a chemical point of view, nonmetals may be divided into two classes: 1) covalent materials, which contain atoms having small sizes, high electronegativities, low valence vacancy to electron ratios, and a pronounced tendency to form negative ions in chemical reactions and negative oxidation states in their compounds; 2) ionic materials, which contain both small and large atoms. Ions may be formed by adding electrons to (small, electronegative atoms) or by extracting electrons from (large, electropositive) atoms. In ionic materials, nonmetals exist either as monatomic anions (e. g., F-in NaF) or as constituents of polyatomic anions (e.g., N and O in the NO3-`s in NaNO3). When in the form of simple elemental substances, about 25 or 22% of the known elements form nonmetals at normal temperatures and pressures, including all of the elements in the S-block of the periodic table and approximately 58% of those in the P-block.

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Nonmetal, in physics, a substance having a finite activation energy (band gap) for electron conduction. This means that nonmetals display low to moderate bulk electrical conductivities, which increase with increasing temperature, and are subject to dielectric breakdown at high voltages and temperatures.

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A Metalloid is a type of thing that is chemicals mixed together

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Metalloid: Metalloid, a chemical element with properties intermediate between those of typical metals and nonmetals. Usually considered under this classification are the chemical elements boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, and tellurium. The rare elements polonium and astatine are also sometimes

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A metal is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typically malleable or ductile.

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any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides; especially : one that is a chemical element as distinguished from an alloy... See the full definition