What are non metals that react with metals called?

Answer 1

All the elements with more than 4 electrons in the valence shell,which are usually gaining electrons and are reduced in the chemical reactions are named "non-metal".This does not include elements in transition metal

Answer 2

Nonmetals. The reactive ones come in three "classes."

First are the Halogens - fluorine, chlorine, iodine and bromine. Fluorine is unbelievably reactive and chlorine isn't far behind. A product formed by reacting a halogen with a metal is called a Salt. Most of the really useful salts contain chlorine, not fluorine; many fluorides are very nasty customers.

Then comes Hydrogen, which stands alone at the beginning of the Periodic Table. It's also extremely reactive. Bonding hydrogen to a metal can be called either "hydrogenation," if you're a chemist, or "hydrogen embrittlement," if you're trying to explain why it caused an accident that killed 300 people.

There are a few other nonmetals that'll react with metals. Carbon will do it, and compounds formed therefrom are called "organometallic" compounds. Nitrogen will, sometimes, with transition metals, and those compounds are "nitrido complexes." These have just recently been discovered and they're pretty interesting to researchers, because nitrogen generally likes to hang out with carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and chlorine. And how can we possibly forget oxygen?

Answer 3

Non metals that react with metals form an ionic compound. They are still called non metals, or you may refer to them as anions once they react with the metal.

Answer 4

They can be from the boron, carbon, pnictogen, chalcogen or halogen families.