Metal: A metal is a substance that conducts heat and electricity, is shiny and reflects many colors of light, and can be hammered into sheets or drawn into wire. Metals lose electrons easily to form cations. About 80% of the known chemical elements are metals.

 

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Metal: A metal is a substance that conducts heat and electricity, is shiny and reflects many colors of light, and can be hammered into sheets or drawn into wire. Metals lose electrons easily to for . . . View Full Definition

Transition Metal: An element with an incomplete d subshell. Elements which have common cations with incomplete d subshells are also considered transition metals. Elements with incomplete f subshells are somet . . . View Full Definition

Metalloid: An element with both metallic and nonmetallic properties. Examples are silicon, arsenic, and germanium.

Metallic Compounds: Compounds that contain at least one metallic element.

Nonmetal: A nonmetal is a substance that conducts heat and electricity poorly, is brittle or waxy or gaseous, and cannot be hammered into sheets or drawn into wire. Nonmetals gain electrons easily to . . . View Full Definition

Metals (Implant): Strong and relatively ductile substances that provide electropositive ions to a corrosive environment and can be polished to a high luster, characterized by metallic atomic bonding. Most oft . . . View Full Definition

Alkali Metal: The Group 1 elements, lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), and francium (Fr) react with cold water for form strongly alkaline hydroxide solutions, and are re . . . View Full Definition

Alkaline Earth Metal: The Group 2 elements, beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium (Ra) form alkaline oxides and hydroxides and are called 'alkaline earth metals'.

Metallics: A class of paints that include metal flakes in their composition.

Metal Print: Is a photographic print made on a sensitized metal surface