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  2. Metal - Wikipedia

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    A metal conducts electricity at a temperature of absolute zero, [5] which is a consequence of delocalized states at the Fermi energy. [1] [2] Many elements and compounds become metallic under high pressures, for example, iodine gradually becomes a metal at a pressure of between 40 and 170 thousand times atmospheric pressure.

  3. Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals - Wikipedia

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    The chemical elements can be broadly divided into metals, metalloids, and nonmetals according to their shared physical and chemical properties.All elemental metals have a shiny appearance (at least when freshly polished); are good conductors of heat and electricity; form alloys with other metallic elements; and have at least one basic oxide.

  4. Lists of metalloids - Wikipedia

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    Recognition status, as metalloids, of some elements in the p-block of the periodic table. Percentages are median appearance frequencies in the lists of metalloids. [n 2] The staircase-shaped line is a typical example of the arbitrary metal–nonmetal dividing line found on some periodic tables.

  5. Noble metal - Wikipedia

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    While lists of noble metals can differ, they tend to cluster around gold and the six platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum. In addition to this term's function as a compound noun, there are circumstances where noble is used as an adjective for the noun metal.

  6. List of named alloys - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of named alloys grouped alphabetically by the metal with the highest percentage. Within these headings, the alloys are also grouped alphabetically. Within these headings, the alloys are also grouped alphabetically.

  7. Metalloid - Wikipedia

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    Meta-metal" is sometimes used instead to refer to certain metals (Be, Zn, Cd, Hg, In, Tl, β-Sn, Pb) located just to the left of the metalloids on standard periodic tables. [231] These metals tend to have distorted crystalline structures, electrical conductivity values at the lower end of those of metals, and amphoteric (weakly basic) oxides. [232]

  8. Native metal - Wikipedia

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    A native metal is any metal that is found pure in its metallic form in nature. [1] [2] ... An example is the mineral eugenite (Ag 11 Hg 2) and related forms. [7]

  9. Metallurgy - Wikipedia

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    Metallurgy derives from the Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός, metallourgós, "worker in metal", from μέταλλον, métallon, "mine, metal" + ἔργον, érgon, "work" The word was originally an alchemist's term for the extraction of metals from minerals, the ending -urgy signifying a process, especially manufacturing: it was discussed in this sense in the 1797 Encyclopædia ...