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Im pretty sure that there are more transition metals than metals or metalloids

Logically, though, it is impossible for there to be more transition metals than metals!

The latest IUPAC Periodic Table recognises 114 elements. Borders are a little blurred but there are about 18 non-metals, about 6 metalloids, and about 90 metals.

Of the ~90 metals, 38 are transition metals, 30 are lanthanoids and actinoids, and the remaining ~22 are "main group" metals.

On this basis of classification, transition metals are the largest single group

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