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Definition of Nonmetals
1. nonmetal [n] - See also: nonmetal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmetals
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 ..."