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.

Metalloids (or semiconductors) are important components of electronic devices. Metalloids have other uses as well. For example, antimony is used in alloys such as pewter and as a flame retardant in plastics. Boron is used as a bonding agent in magnets and other chemical substances.

There are six elements commonly recognized as metalloids.

They are boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium.

semimetal's conductivty as it increases and gets hotter.

Groups 13, 14 and 15

Metalloid, or semi metal is a term used in chemistry when classifying the chemical elements. On the basis of their general physical and chemical properties, nearly every element in the periodic table can be termed either a metal or a nonmetal. However, a few elements with intermediate properties are referred to as metalloids. They are sometimes called (and confused with) semiconductors and semimetals.

The following elements are generally considered metalloids:

* Boron (B) * Silicon (Si) * Germanium (Ge) * Arsenic (As) * Antimony (Sb) * Tellurium (Te) * Polonium (Po) Inclusion of polonium is somewhat academic because all its isotopes are radioactive.

computer chips, transistors, and lasers.

Krypton is a nonmetal.

yes

More individual elements are metals than are either of the other categories given.

their properties are in the middle of metals and nonmetals. they are semi conductive, semi metallic, semi malleable, semi ductile, and some give up electrons while some take electrons.

Boron forms electron poor hydrides that can exist in many different shapes and formulas because of the hydrogen bridges it can form.

representative elements

Elements that are classed as metalloids are Boron (B), Silicon (Si), Germanium (Ge), Arsenic (As), Antimony (Sb), Tellurium (Te), and Polonium (Po).

Yes they are.

metalloids are very shiny because it has many atoms to reflect light which makes it shiny.

Metalloids, also called semimetals, have the characteristics of both metals and non-metals. Three characterics of metalloids are insulate, conduct electricity, and its elements are Silicon and Boron.

I would describe Nonmetallic behavior as primarily being how nonmetals deal with electrons: nonmetals would either ACCEPT electrons from a metal to form an ionic bond OR SHARE electrons with another nonmetal in a covalent bond. So typically, nonmetals aren't going to donate electrons in ionic bonds, like metals do (metallic behavior).

Metals are the pure substances by and show only characteristic properties of metals while a metalloid is an element which show some properties of metals and some properties of non metals as Aluminium, Zinc and Tin.

Metals and non-metals:

Metals have many properties like they are lusterous and are hard. They are also very good conductors of heat and electricity. They are most of the time magnetic also. But this is not for every metal for-example Lithium is soft.

Examples of metals:

Cobalt, iron, copper, plutonium....

Non-metals also have many properties as well. Their properties are pretty much the opposite of metals. They are poor conductors.

Examples of non-metals:

Oxygen, hydrogen, neon.......

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What are properties of the Metalloids?

Are non-meatals with metallic properties, or metals with out metallic properties.

If you go on this website: http://www.chem.uwec.edu/Chem150_S07/elaborations/unit1/unit-1b-octet-rule/fig2-6.png you will see the periodic table of elements, the black line shows metals and non-metals (right non-metals also green) the purple are metalloids.