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metalloid
(encz) | metalloid,metaloid n: Zdeněk Brož |
Metalloid
(gcide) | 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 Humphrey 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.
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Metalloid
(gcide) | Metalloid \Met"al*loid\, a.
1. Having the appearance of a metal.
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2. (Chem.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic;
acid; negative.
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metalloid
(wn) | metalloid
adj 1: of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the
properties of metal; "arsenic is a metalloid element" |
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metalloid
(encz) | metalloid,metaloid n: Zdeněk Brož |
Metalloidal
(gcide) | Metalloidal \Met`al*loid"al\, a.
Metalloid.
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metalloid
(wn) | metalloid
adj 1: of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the
properties of metal; "arsenic is a metalloid element" |
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