Swedish Meaning of metalloid

Metalloid

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Definitions and Meaning of metalloid in English

Wordnet

metalloid (s)

of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal

Webster

metalloid (n.)

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.

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.

Webster

metalloid (a.)

Having the appearance of a metal.

Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.

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Metalloid

of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metalFormerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H.

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metallography => Metalografi, metallographist => Metallograf, metallographic => metallografisk, metallograph => Metallograf, metallochromy => Metallokromi,