Nonmetal
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
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Nonmetal Translations
nonmetal in German is Nichtmetall
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