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The characteristic properties of elemental metals and nonmetals are quite distinct, as shown in the table below. Metalloids, straddling the metal-nonmetal border , are mostly distinct from either, but in a few properties resemble one or the other, as shown in the shading of the metalloid column below and summarized in the small table at the top ...
Nonmetals show more variability in their properties than do metals. [1] Metalloids are included here since they behave predominately as chemically weak nonmetals.. Physically, they nearly all exist as diatomic or monatomic gases, or polyatomic solids having more substantial (open-packed) forms and relatively small atomic radii, unlike metals, which are nearly all solid and close-packed, and ...
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.
A material property is an intensive property of a material, i.e., a physical property or chemical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, thereby aiding in materials selection.
Characteristic properties of metals, metalloids, and nonmetals are summarized in the table. [84] Physical properties are listed in order of ease of determination; chemical properties run from general to specific, and then to descriptive.
The dividing line between metals and nonmetals can be found, in varying configurations, on some representations of the periodic table of the elements (see mini-example, right). Elements to the lower left of the line generally display increasing metallic behaviour; elements to the upper right display increasing nonmetallic behaviour.
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Although most elemental metals have higher densities than nonmetals, [10] there is a wide variation in their densities, lithium being the least dense (0.534 g/cm 3) and osmium (22.59 g/cm 3) the most dense.