Dictionary Entry
metalloid
metalloid is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3adjective
Having the appearance of a metal.
- 4adjective
Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
- 5adjective
of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal
"arsenic is a metalloid element"
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