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nonmetal
nonmetal is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses
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- 1noun
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
- 2noun
a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties
- 3adjective
not containing or resembling or characteristic of a metal
"nonmetallic elements"
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