Word
Metalloid
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
met-al-loid
Definition
- 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.
- n. - 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.
- a. - Having the appearance of a metal.
- a. - Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid;
negative.
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