Definition of Nonmetals

1. Noun. (plural of nonmetal) ¹

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Definition of Nonmetals

1. nonmetal [n] - See also: nonmetal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmetals

nonmesothelial
nonmessenger
nonmessengers
nonmessianic
nonmessy
nonmetabolic
nonmetabolizable
nonmetabolized
nonmetachromatic
nonmetal
nonmetallic
nonmetalliferous
nonmetallized
nonmetallurgist
nonmetallurgists
nonmetals (current term)
nonmetameric
nonmetamorphic
nonmetaphoric
nonmetaphorical
nonmetaphysical
nonmetaplastic
nonmetastable
nonmetastasized
nonmetastatic
nonmetered
nonmethanogenic
nonmethodical
nonmethodological
nonmethoxylated

Literary usage of Nonmetals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Dental Metallurgy: A Text and Reference Book for Students and by Joseph Dupuy Hodgen (1918)
"They combine with nonmetals in definite chemical proportions to form compounds of a more precise nature, in which case the metallic characters are almost ..."

2. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"CHAPTER XXVIII DEPOSITS OF THE nonmetals BUILDING STONES Granite, sandstone, limestone, marble, slate, and many other rocks are used for building and for ..."

3. The Chemistry of Colloids by Richard Zsigmondy, Ellwood Barker Spear, John Foote Norton (1917)
"CHAPTER VI COLLOIDAL nonmetals Colloidal Sulfur SOBRERO and Selmi,* Wackenroder,f and Debus Î have studied the reactions between hydrogen sulfide and ..."

4. General Economic Geology: A Textbook by William Harvey Emmons (1922)
"It embraces the geology of mineral fuels, structural materials, and other nonmetals and of the metals. The treatment is necessarily brief and might well be ..."

5. A Course in General Chemistry by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson (1921)
"Sulfur combines directly with many of the elements, metals as well as nonmetals. The compounds formed by its union with some other element are termed ..."

6. A Course in General Chemistry by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson (1913)
"Action of nonmetals upon bases. The action of nonmetals upon strong bases is of much interest, since a number of important compounds are prepared by such ..."

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