Crossword-Solution: METALLOID
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| Metalloid | 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. |
| Metalloid | 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. |
| Metalloid | a. | Having the appearance of a metal. |
| Metalloid | a. | Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “METALLOID”
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| Arsenic or silicon | 1 answer |
| of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal | 1 answer |
| metal | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with METALLOID (3)
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.
The brittle, grey-coloured metal, or metalloid, which forms the base of the white arsenic and orpiment of commerce.
The process resolves itself into the adjustment of the correct proportion of oxygen, the function of which is largely to eliminate the gases from the copper, or to overcome their deleterious effects, as well as to convert the otherwise more injurious metalloid impurities into a less harmful form.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).