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- noun Plural form of
metalloid .
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Examples
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These elements are classified as metalloids or semimetals.
Elements 2009
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Authorities disagree to some extent concerning which elements belong in this category, but the elements in yellow boxes in Figure 6 are commonly classified as metalloids.
Elements 2009
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Most of the elements that have two sides of their box forming part of the stair-step line are metalloids.
Elements 2009
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The name sounds mildly sinister, nevertheless the company offers actual working solutions to environmental degradation: phytoremediation of lead, uranium, chromium, and other metals, metalloids and organic compounds; brownfield site development and use; wetlands restoration and protection.
Edenfern™ 2006
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The name sounds mildly sinister, nevertheless the company offers actual working solutions to environmental degradation: phytoremediation of lead, uranium, chromium, and other metals, metalloids and organic compounds; brownfield site development and use; wetlands restoration and protection.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Elements can be classified as being either metals, nonmetals, or metalloids (Table 1).
Matter 2006
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The old classification of the metal, even familiarly known, needs now to be supplemented, since it does not describe the modern cast and malleable compounds of iron, carbon and metalloids used for structural purposes, and constituting at least three-fourths of the metal now made under the name of steel.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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Irritant -- practically all the metals and the metalloids (I.Cl. Br. P.).
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By this means the sulphur and other metalloids and base metals are volatilized and eliminated, and the gold in the ore is then in such a condition as to alloy itself or become amalgamated with the fluid metal with which it is brought into close contact.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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The mass of crude metal was heated to a very high temperature; atmospheric air was forced through it at a considerable pressure; and the oxygen uniting with these metalloids carried them off in the form of acid gases.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various
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