Arsenic is a metalloid element. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As a metalloid, arsenic is a semiconductor, like silicon. From Wordnik.com. [Arsenic] Reference
Arsenic is an element (atomic number 33) classed as a semi-metal or metalloid. From Wordnik.com. [Arsenic] Reference
Despite its metallic appearance, it is not considered a metal, but a metalloid. From Wordnik.com. [Germanium] Reference
The helmets were especially dramatic, molded of a dull-rose metalloid, with black fleurettes for cheek-pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Trullion: Alastor 2262]
Silicon, atomic number of 14, is a semi-metallic or metalloid, because it has several of the metallic characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Silicon] Reference
The headbands of men glittered, their tunics were of shimmering metalloid mesh, colorful trousers banded with gold went into soft half-boots. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Unconcerned by the shifting tide of traffic advancing toward him across the blackened beach of this urban nightmare, he watched the luminous sun melt into the metalloid dreams of Bay City. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Books] Reference
Purser Hardy Dickens heard only the incessant tapping of metalloid bodies against metalloid walls, a reminder of the endless droning of days of his last hundred or so years of life aboard the Interplanetary Love Ship. From Wordnik.com. [CYCLES • by Stephen V. Ramey] Reference
Franklinite is a black vitreo-metalloid substance, found in New. From Wordnik.com. [Franklinite] Reference
It is a notoriously poisonous metalloid and hae many different form. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It is a notoriously poisonous metalloid and has many different form. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It contains no garnet or amphibole, but metalloid diallage disseminated in the mass. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The element Antimony is a solid metalloid that belongs to the group called Pnictogen. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Boron is an abundant metalloid (a small class of elements that are sort of metals and sort of not). From Wordnik.com. [Green Options] Reference
I found no traces of this grey copper: it is probably the metalloid diallage that has given the Cerro de. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The 1st and 2nd generation photovoltaic cells require different forms of silicon, rare transition metals and metalloid elements. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There is nearly 1,100 pounds of the notoriously poisonous metalloid arsenic in the site threatening to contaminate the groundwater. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
Texas has unlimited supply of Germanium. using Germanium in solar has a 40\% efficiency, more than any other combination of Minerals or metalloid. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The serpentine is sometimes of an esquillous, sometimes of a conchoidal fracture: this was the first time I had found metalloid diallage within the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Little is known about antimony's toxicity, in part because the metalloid element is usually found at low, parts-per-billion concentrations in natural environments. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
There a guide told us how the semi-conductor metalloid is widely used in manufacturing top-notch optical fiber, infrared devices and above all, solar energy panels. From Wordnik.com. [Inland can generate power, and cleanly too] Reference
BOC could churn out a jackhammer riff with the best of them, but it was also the lyrical content of their songs that set them apart from their 1970s metalloid competitors. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The MEP is also aware that, over the past year, there have been 12 incidents of heavy metal and metalloid pollution in Dongchuan, a district of the south-western city of Kunming. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
I found no traces of this grey copper: it is probably the metalloid diallage that has given the Cerro de Guanabacoa the reputation of riches in gold and silver which it has enjoyed for ages. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
For this reason Lombroso calls the occasional criminals "criminaloids," in order to show precisely that they have a distinctly abnormal constitution, though in a less degree than the born criminals, just as we have the metal and the metalloid, the epileptic and the epileptoid. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Sociology] Reference
Specialty chemicals group LANXESS has now developed a product that can reliably remove this toxic metalloid from drinking water: Lewatit FO36 is an innovative hybrid adsorber consisting of a combination of a polymeric anion exchange resin and an iron oxide with a goethite structure. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A fist-pumper that proves Dave Grohl’s got plenty of throat-shredding screams, ridiculously catchy choruses and loud-quiet-loud metalloid riffs left in his quiver. From Wordnik.com. [Lil Wayne Rolling Stone Magazine April 16, 2009] Reference
Germanium is a metalloid. From Wordnik.com. [Germanium] Reference
This was brought about by the increasing acceptance of allopathy) of the day that included bloodletting and high-dose injections of metal and metalloid compounds containing mercury or antimony. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
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