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| | METALLOID - Definition (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | [adj] of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal; "arsenic is a metalloid element" |
 | | m['e]tallo["i]de.] (a) Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. |
 | | (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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