Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a metalloid or metalloids; of the nature of a metalloid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Metalloid.
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- adjective
metalloid
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The absence from the solar spectrum of metalloidal absorption he explained by the separation, in the fierce solar furnace, of such substances as oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, and chlorine, into simpler constituents possessing unknown spectra; while metals were at that time still admitted to be capable of existing there in a state of integrity.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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