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metalloid

Metalloid is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter M and ends with the letter D for which we found 4 definitions.

Definition
(n.) Formerly the metallic base of a fixed alkali or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium potassium and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
(n.) Now one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals and whose compounds possess or produce acid rather than basic properties; a nonmetal; as boron carbon phosphorus nitrogen oxygen sulphur chlorine bromine etc. are metalloids.
(a.) Having the appearance of a metal.
(a.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.

Syllable Information

The word metalloid is a 9 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for metalloid is: met-al-loid


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