Metalloids are best known for being ________.

Dense

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Good conductors

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Semiconductors

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Insulators

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Solution

The correct option is C Semiconductors
An element whose properties are intermediate between those of metals and solid non-metals is known as Metalloid and most of them are used as semiconductors.

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(a) What are metalloids? Name two metalloids.

(b) Classify the following elements into metals,non-metals, and metalloids:

Copper, Sulphur, Aluminium, Oxygen, Silicon, Nitrogen, Germanium, Mercury, Chlorine, and Sodium.

Sodium can be cut by a knife, so it is a metalloid.

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