we call them metaloids. Al element is a example.
Nails are metal.
Hydrogen has 1 electron. It can easily gain or lose electron to form metal or non metal
Metal is metal. Nonmetal is everything else.
Is ceramic metal or nonmetal
Metal - metal compounds don't exist... Only metal-nonmetal and nonmetal-nonmetal
it can be a metal or nonmetal or metalliods
Tantalum is a metal.
nonmetal
Like all of the halogens, Fluorine is very much a nonmetal.
nonmetal
nonmetal
The element that can exhibit properties of both a metal and a nonmetal is called metalloid. Examples include silicon, germanium, and arsenic. Metalloids have properties that are intermediate between metals and nonmetals.