Mineral Resources The country's mountains contain a variety of metallic and nonmetallic minerals.
Other Raw Materials There are reported to be adequate resources of nonmetallic minerals for the production of cement and other building materials, glass, and ceramics.
Defn: A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides.
Defn: A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume.
As a general rule, the metallic atoms are basic radicals, while the nonmetallic atoms are acid radicals.
Defn: A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell.
Defn: Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element.
Defn: A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds.
A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing.
A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides.
A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell.
A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds.
A colorlessnonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume.
Very heavy, the heaviest of light colored and nonmetallic minerals.
Undoubtedly, you'll have somenonmetallic minerals in your collection.
Silicon is a nonmetallic element, always found in combination with something else.
An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; Ð so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.
An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances.
In the old chemistry the name acid was applied to the oxides of the negative ornonmetallic elements, now sometimes called anhydrides.
A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nonmetallic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
