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Metalloids

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Metalloids 

(1) Obsolete name for nonmetallic elements.

(2) General term for the elements B, Si, Ge, As, Sb, Te, and Po, which are intermediate in properties between metals and nonmetals; occasionally used in foreign and translated literature.



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