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metalloids

metalloids is the plural of metalloid.

Meaning of metalloid

Noun

metalloid (plural metalloids)

  1. An element, such as silicon or germanium, intermediate in properties between that of a metal and a nonmetal; especially an elemental semiconductor.
  2. (obsolete) The metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; applied to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
    • By some they [metals of the alkalies] were called metalloids; by some their simple nature was objected to1836, Sir Humphry Davy, Memoirs
  3. (obsolete) A nonmetal.

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Questions about metalloids

What is metalloids the plural of?
Metalloids is the plural of metalloid.

Words near metalloids in the dictionary

  1. metallography
  2. metallohydrolase
  3. metallohydrolases
  4. metalloid
  5. metalloidal
  6. metalloids
  7. metalloimmunoassay
  8. metalloimmunoassays
  9. metalloisoenzyme
  10. metalloisoenzymes
  11. metalloisopeptidase

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