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Meaning of 'metalloid' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Metalloid [ a.]
- Having the appearance of a metal.
- Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
2 . 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.

Meaning of 'metalloid' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . metalloid [ s]
Meaning (1):
- of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal
Example in sentence:
  • arsenic is a metalloid element

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