nonmetal

See also: non-métal

English

Alternative forms

• non-metal

Etymology

non- +‎ metal

Noun

nonmetal (plural nonmetals)

1. (chemistry) An element, such as phosphorus or chlorine, that does not have the chemical or physical properties of a metal.

Translations

element that does not have the properties of a metal

• Esperanto: nemetalo
• Finnish: epämetalli (fi)
• French: non-métal (fr) m
• German: Nichtmetall (de) n
• Greek: αμέταλλο (el) n (amétallo)
• Hungarian: nemfém
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• Polish: niemetal (pl) m
• Russian: немета́лл (ru) m (nemetáll)
• Spanish: no metal m
• Swedish: icke-metall (sv) c
• Tagalog: dimetal
• Vietnamese: phi kim

Further reading

• nonmetal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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