| 11. | Despite this recommendation, use of the term'metalloid'increased dramatically.
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| 12. | Sometimes tellurium is not regarded as a metalloid.
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| 13. | Antimony is considered to be a metalloid and thus cannot be a noble metal.
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| 14. | Much of the literature about metalloids is superficial.
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| 15. | Use of the term semimetal, rather than metalloid, has recently been discouraged.
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| 16. | The inclusion of antimony, polonium, and astatine as metalloids also has been questioned.
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| 17. | Metalloids tend to have lower electrical conductivity than metals, yet often higher than nonmetals.
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| 18. | Silicon is perhaps the most famous metalloid.
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| 19. | Berzelius subdivided the metalloids into three classes.
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| 20. | Use of the term metalloid subsequently underwent a period of great flux up to 1940.
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