Some characteristics Of Metals, Nonmetals, And Metalloids:
Metals:
High thermal and electrical conductivity
Hard, dense, and solid (except For Mercury [which is a liquid])
Strong
Malleable
Ductility
Luster
Sonorous
High melting points
High tensile strength
Nonmetals:
Do not conduct heat and electricity very well
Dull
Brittle
Not sonorous
Insulators
Low melting point
Low tensile strength
Metalloids:
Semi-conductors
Low conductivity
Metals are lustrous, shiny, malleable, ductile, sonorous and conduct heat and electricity.
Non metals are non lustrous, not shiny, not malleable and ductile and does not conduct heat and electricity.
Metals are conductive, maliable and are usually in the beggining of compounds name. They have metallic bonds. They are metallic and low in electronegativity. They have larger radii and smaller activation energy.
Non-metals are not conductive nor maliable. They usually come at the end of a compound name. Alone some are diatomic. They are high in electronegativity. They have smaller radii and have higher activation energy
Metals conduct electricity; non-metals do not.
One characteristic of non-metals is that they are generally gaseous at room temperature. Non-metals will also typically bond with metals easily.
Vinegar (acetic acid) can react with some reactive metals as alkaline metals.
nonmetal
Between the metals and nonmetal
hydrogen
solid nonmetal is solid and metal is just metal
all nonconductors are either nonmetal or metalloids (partial metals)
Non metals
They are called metalloids. They have properties of both metals and non metals.
that's metals
Alkali Metals