Is lead a metalliod

Answer 1

Though it shares the same group as carbon, silicon, and germanium, lead is definitely metallic. It is malleable, conducts heat and electricity well, is lustrous (though it oxidizes and dulls quickly,) and reacts with nonmetals easily to form compounds similar to those formed by other metals.

The metalloids (or semi-metals) are: boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, and polonium. Their properties are essentially between those of the nonmetals and the metals, and they are the main ingredients in semiconducting materials.

Aluminum falls in the region of the period table that makes up the metalloids, the stairstep pattern that starts with polonium and tellurium and climbs up to boron, but it is always considered a metal, as it has all of the properties that one typically associates with metals.

Carbon, phosphorus, selenium, tin, and bismuth can show some of the characteristics of semimetals, depending on how the atoms are bonded together, or the allotrope in which they are found (graphite vs diamond for carbon, for instance.) no, lead is a metal. metalliod is a cross between a metal and a non-metal.

Answer 2

yes lead is a soft metal and it is heavy too