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What is the only element that can act as a metal and a nonmetal?
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What is unique about metalloids?
Metalloids are a 'one-of-a-kind' element. They contain a mix of chemical and physical properties from both metals and nonmetals. Metalloids can act as either a metal or a nonmetal, which makes them a metalloid.
What element can act as both an electron donor and an electron acceptor?
Hydrogen, depending upon what element it is combining with, can act either as a metal or a nonmetal. But as a nonmetal it shares electrons in the form of covalent bonds, rather than actually donating them. Similarly, carbon can react with metals or nonmetals but forms covalent bonds. To truly donate or accept electrons is to form ionic bonds, and no element has the flexibility to form ionic bonds both as a donor and as an acceptor. Elements can do one or the other, if they form ionic bonds. Some elements only form covalent bonds.
I have 1 electron and act like them im not really alkali metal.?
Hydrogen, it is one of the most difficult elements to classify: it can form +1 ions like the alkali metals, it can form -1 ions like the halogens, it is a nonmetal.
Why d block element act as catalyst?
They have empty d orbitals.So they can adsorb electrons from substrate and act as catalysts
Do isotopes of a given element act identically in chemical reactions?
Yes.
What can act like a metal and a nonmetal?
we call them metaloids. Al element is a example.
What is unique about metalloids?
Metalloids are a 'one-of-a-kind' element. They contain a mix of chemical and physical properties from both metals and nonmetals. Metalloids can act as either a metal or a nonmetal, which makes them a metalloid.
How can hydrogen act ad a metal and a nonmetal?
Hydrogen has 1 electron. It can easily gain or lose electron to form metal or non metal
What element can act as both an electron donor and an electron acceptor?
Hydrogen, depending upon what element it is combining with, can act either as a metal or a nonmetal. But as a nonmetal it shares electrons in the form of covalent bonds, rather than actually donating them. Similarly, carbon can react with metals or nonmetals but forms covalent bonds. To truly donate or accept electrons is to form ionic bonds, and no element has the flexibility to form ionic bonds both as a donor and as an acceptor. Elements can do one or the other, if they form ionic bonds. Some elements only form covalent bonds.
How does hydrogen act like a nonmetal?
Hydrogen can act as a metal and a nonmetal, it acts as a metal because its reacts with diffferent types of chemicals same as any other metal would. It nonmetal metal also because it has the following traits dull, brittle, and cannot conduct with heat very well.
What is the element that is really not an alkali metal with 1 electron but act like one?
You think probable to hydrogen.
Why hydrogen is classified as a non metallic element?
Hydrogen can act similarly to a metal chemically and at very intense pressures it is theorized to be metallic.
I have 1 electron and act like them im not really alkali metal.?
Hydrogen, it is one of the most difficult elements to classify: it can form +1 ions like the alkali metals, it can form -1 ions like the halogens, it is a nonmetal.
Can helium act as a metal?
No. helium is a non metal
What category is hydrogen in?
Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table. It is a gas. It can either donate or receive an electron, depending on what it bonds with.
The smallest part of an element that still act like an element is?
an atom
Which element was not on the homestead act?
Barium.
