nonmetal

See also: non-metal, and non-métal

English

Alternative forms

• non-metal

Etymology

From non- +‎ metal.

Pronunciation

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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

• Catalan: no-metall m
• Esperanto: nemetalo
• Finnish: epämetalli (fi)
• French: non-métal (fr) m
• German: Nichtmetall (de) n
• Greek: αμέταλλο (el) n (amétallo)
• Hungarian: nemfém (hu)
• Italian: non-metallo m
• Maori: konukore
• Persian: نافلز (fa) (nâfelez)
• Polish: niemetal (pl) m
• Romanian: nemetal (ro) n
• Russian: немета́лл (ru) m (nemetáll)
• Spanish: no metal m
• Swedish: icke-metall (sv) c
• Tagalog: dimetal
• Turkish: ametal (tr)
• Vietnamese: phi kim
• Welsh: anfetel m

Further reading

• nonmetal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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