| 1. | The term " metalloid " originally referred to nonmetals.
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| 2. | Metalloids are usually too brittle to have any structural uses.
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| 3. | Selenium is commonly described as a metalloid in the environmental chemistry literature.
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| 4. | It is the most important source for the metalloid antimony.
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| 5. | Actually, are these authors crucial to the near-metalloid definition?
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| 6. | Germanium is usually considered to be a metalloid rather than a metal.
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| 7. | The number and identities of metalloids depend on what classification criteria are used.
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| 8. | Among the lighter metalloids, alloys with transition metals are well-represented.
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| 9. | Classifying aluminium as a metalloid has been disputed given its many metallic properties.
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| 10. | The metalloids occupy the octahedrally coordinated " B " sites in these compounds.
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