semimetals

Presents an introduction to elements known as metalloids, explaining how they display similar characteristics but are not metals, including arsenic, boron, and others.

Presents an overview of metals, covering alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals, group 13 metals, group 14 metals, and transition metals, as well as unusual metalloids.

An overview of metals and metalloids--including aluminum, gallium, arsenic, antimony, boron, indium, thallium, lead, bismuth, silicon, germanium, tellurium, polonium, and tin--that discusses their discoveries, physical properties, how they are synthesized in the universe, where they are found, how they are used, and other related topics.