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This line has been called the amphoteric line, [2] the metal-nonmetal line, [3] the metalloid line, [4] [5] the semimetal line, [6] or the staircase. [2] [n 1] While it has also been called the Zintl border [8] or the Zintl line [9] [10] these terms instead refer to a vertical line sometimes drawn between groups 13 and 14.
The only metal having an ionisation energy higher than some nonmetals (sulfur and selenium) is mercury. [citation needed] Mercury and its compounds have a reputation for toxicity but on a scale of 1 to 10, dimethylmercury ((CH 3) 2 Hg) (abbr. DMM), a volatile colourless liquid, has been described as a 15. It is so dangerous that scientists have ...
Class A metals are metals that form hard acids. [1] Hard acids are acids with relatively ionic bonds. These metals, such as iron, aluminium, titanium, sodium, calcium, and the lanthanides, would rather bond with fluorine than iodine. They form stable products with hard bases, which are bases with ionic bonds. They target molecules such as ...
It melts at 113.7 °C to a brown liquid and boils at 184.3 °C to a violet-coloured vapour. It has an orthorhombic crystalline structure with a flaky habit. Iodine is semiconductor in the direction of its planes, with a band gap of about 1.3 eV and a conductivity of 1.7 × 10 −8 S•cm −1 at room temperature. This is higher than selenium ...
The average electronegativity for the elements in the table with densities less than 7 gm/cm 3 (metals and nonmetals) is 1.97 compared to 1.66 for the metals having densities of more than 7 gm/cm 3. There is not full agreement about the use of phenomenological properties.
The coordination geometry depends on the number, not the type, of ligands bonded to the metal centre as well as their locations. The number of atoms bonded is the coordination number. The geometrical pattern can be described as a polyhedron where the vertices of the polyhedron are the centres of the coordinating atoms in the ligands. [1]
Scott and Kanda [237] refer to the metals in groups 11 to 15, plus platinum in group 10, as soft metals, excluding the very active metals, in groups 1−3. They note many important non-ferrous alloys are made from metals in this class, including sterling silver, brass (copper and zinc), and bronzes (copper with tin, manganese and nickel).
Substance Class T C (K) H C (T) Type BCS References Al: Element 1.20 0.01 I yes [1] [2] [3]Bi: Element 5.3 × 10 −4: 5.2 × 10 −6: I no [note 1] [4]Cd: Element 0.52 0.0028 I yes [2] [3]Diamond:B