CBSE Class 9 Answered
(a) What are metalloids? Give an example.
(b) What properties are shown by them?
Asked by Topperlearning User | 07 May, 2014, 12:57: PM
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(a) Some elements which show intermediate properties between those of metals and non-metals are called metalloids. For example: Boron.
(b) Properties shown by metalloids:
1. They look like metals but they are brittle like non-metals.
2. They are neither conductors of electricity like metals nor insulators like non-metals, they are semiconductors.
Answered by | 07 May, 2014, 02:57: PM
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