Question

Enlist the properties and uses of metalloids.

Answer 1

Metalloids have five main characteristics

• Metals have properties that are halfway between metals and nonmetals.
• Physically, they resemble metals.
• Electricity's semi-conductors.
• Brittle.
• Chemically, nonmetals are more akin to metals than metals are to nonmetals.

Some uses of Metalloids are as follows -

• Metalloids are typically too brittle to be used in structural applications.
• Alloys, biological agents, catalysts, flame retardants, glasses, optical storage and optoelectronics, pyrotechnics, semiconductors, and electronics all employ them or their derivatives.