metal---- mercury non metal-----bromine
A metal conducts heat better than a nonmetal. If you put a metal and a non-metal in boiling water for the same amount of time, the metal will be hotter than the non-metal. If you put a metal and non-metal in ice water for the same amount of time, the metal will be colder than the non-metal. Also, metal conducts electricity better than non-metal. You can use metal and non-metal wires to conduct a battery, and see which one works better.
Helium is a non metal.
Salts as a group do but other compounds do not.
When metals and non-metals come in contact with one another -metal atoms lose electrons to form positively charged ionsnon-metal atoms gain electrons to form negatively charged ions
The word "underemployed" is typically written with no spaces or hyphens as one word.
It is one word - update.
No, thirty one is two words or a hypenated word, thirty-one.
Eye-catching is hyphenated.
Generally co-author should be hyphenated, but the relaxed rules of modern times often present coauthor as one word
Neon is a non-metal. It is one of the Noble Gasses which are all non-metals.
Oxygen is one of the non-metal elements.
metal---- mercury non metal-----bromine
one example of a non ferrous metal is copper.
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A reaction between a metal and a non-metal is an ionic bond. The metal "gives away" one (or more) of its electrons to become stable. The non-metal "accepts" them.
non metal + non metal = covalent (sharing of bonds) metal + non-metal = ionic (giving away of electrons by one and receiving by the other)