Nonmetals and Metalloids
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beccachecka on January 21, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nonmetal | elements that lacks most of the properties of a metal |
| Solid nonmetals characteristics | dull and brittle, most are gasses at room temperature, malleable, ductile |
| Carbon Family | (carbon, silicon, tin, and lead) they burn to get energy, |
| Nitrogen Family | (nitrogen, phosphorous, bismuth, antimony) helpful to life, nitrogen is in 80% of the atmosphere |
| Oxygen Family | (oxygen sulfer, selenium) you breathe oxygen, |
| Halogen Family | (fluorine, chlorine, bromine) Ozone is 03, very reactive, dangerous when uncombined |
| Noble Gases | (neon, helium, argon, xenon) they exist in the earths atmosphere and they are unreactive |
| Hydrogen | alone in the upper left corner |
| Metalloids | have characteristics of both metals and nonmetals |
| semiconductors | materials that can conduct in some conditions and not in others |
| Abilities of Metalloids | semiconductors.. and. uhhh HEY IF U REMEMBER THE ANSWER CAN U TELL ME!!?!?!??! |
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