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Davy to sodium,
potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic
character was supposed to be not well defined.
(b) Now, one of several elementary substances
which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds
possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal;
as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine,
bromine, etc., are metalloids.

Met"al*loid, a. 1.
Having the appearance of a metal.

2. (Chem.) Having the properties of a
nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.

Met`al*loid"al (?), a.
Metalloid.

Met`al*lor*gan"ic (?), a.
Metalorganic.

Me*tal`lo*ther"a*py (?), n. [L.
metallum metal + E. therapy.] (Med.)
Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface
of the body.

{ Met`al*lur"gic (?), Met`al*lur"gic*al (?), }
a. [Cf. F. métallurgique.] Of or
pertaining to metallurgy.

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