Definitions for metalloid
  • 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.
  • Metalloid (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.
  • Metalloid (a.) - Having the appearance of a metal.
  • Metalloid (a.) - Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
  • Metalloidal (a.) - Metalloid.
  • Metalloids - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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