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Nonmetal

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Nonmetal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​n/nonmetal.html. 1828.