what are some chemical properties of nonmetals?
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The halogens can be found in column 17 of the Periodic Table.  They are called Group VII because they all have 7 electrons in their outer orbitals.\n\nThe lighter ones (Fluorine & Chlorine) are gases at room temperature.  Bromine is a liquid, while Iodine & Astatine are solids.  All tend to rapidly react by gaining an electron (they are good oxidizers).\n\nThe noble gases can be found in column 18 of the Periodic Table.  They are called Group VIII because they all have 8 electrons in their outer orbitals.\n\nHaving full outer orbitals, the noble gases usually do not react with other elements.  This is why they are sometimes called the Inert Gases.  Several compounds of Xenon and Fluorine and Oxygen have been make and studies, however.
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There would be no liquid nonmetallic element!!
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Magnets attract to ferrous metals such as iron, nickel, cobalt, certain steels and other alloys. Brass, aluminum, copper, and most stainless steels, however, are non ferrous
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what the others have answered are the elements consisting of ammonium sulphate and they've still got that wrong... it's nitrogen, hydrogen, sulphur and oxygen (no carbon and ammonia is NH3).\n\nChemical properties on following website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_sulphate
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metals: give up electrons in ionic bonds. They also form metallic bonding.  sodium, potassium, lithium, to name just a few. There are a lot of metals\n\nnonmetals: this is more more difficult group to describe. They materials like to form covalent bonds--a joint sharing of two electrons. Both hydrogen and oxygen are nonmetals. But hydrogen gives up its electon in an ionic bond. For example HCl. It that repect it acts similar to a metal. Carbon is also a nonmetal\n\nMetaloid: silicon, germanium, boron, arsenic, antamony. These elements are right on the line between metals and nonmetals. As a result they make good semi conductors.
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PROPERTIES OF METALS\n\nThis section is devoted primarily to the terms used in describing various properties and characteristics of metals in general. Of primary concern in aircraft maintenance are such general properties of metals and their alloys as hardness, brittleness, malleability, ductility, elasticity, toughness, density, fusibility, conductivity, and contraction and expansion. You must know the definition of the terms included here because they form the basis for further discussion of aircraft metals.\n\nHardness\n\nHardness refers to the ability of a metal to resist abrasion, penetration, cutting action, or permanent distortion. Hardness may be increased by working the metal and, in the case of steel and certain titanium and aluminum alloys, by heat treatment and cold-working (discussed later). Structural parts are often formed from metals in their soft state and then heat treated to harden them so that the finished shape will be retained. Hardness and strength are closely associated properties of all metals.\n\nBrittleness\n\nBrittleness is the property of a metal that allows little bending or deformation without shattering. In other words, a brittle metal is apt to break or crack without change of shape. Because structural metals are often subjected to shock loads, brittleness is not a very desirable property. Cast iron, cast aluminum, and very hard steel are brittle metals.\n\nMalleability\n\nA metal that can be hammered, rolled, or pressed into various shapes without cracking or breaking or other detrimental effects is said to be malleable. This property is necessary in sheet metal that is to be worked into curved shapes such as cowlings, fairings, and wing tips. Copper is one example of a malleable metal.\n\nDuctility\n\nDuctility is the property of a metal that permits it to be permanently drawn, bent, or twisted into various shapes without breaking. This property is essential for metals used in making wire and tubing. Ductile metals are greatly preferred for aircraft use because of their ease of forming and resistance to failure under shock loads. For this reason, aluminum alloys are used for cowl rings, fuselage and wing skin, and formed or extruded parts, such as ribs, spars, and bulkheads. Chrome-molybdenum steel is also easily formed into desired shapes. Ductility is similar to malleability.\n\nElasticity\n\nElasticity is that property that enables a metal to return to its original shape when the force that causes the change of shape is removed. This property is extremely valuable, because it would be highly undesirable to have a part permanently distorted after an applied load was removed. Each metal has a point known as the elastic limit, beyond which it cannot be loaded without causing permanent distortion. When metal is loaded beyond its elastic limit and permanent distortion does result, it is referred to as strained. In aircraft construction, members and parts are so designed that the maximum loads to which they are subjected will never stress them beyond their elastic limit.\n\nNOTE: Stress is the internal resistance of any metal to distortion.\n\nToughness\n\nA material that possesses toughness will withstand tearing or shearing and may be stretched or otherwise deformed without breaking. Toughness is a desirable property in aircraft metals.\n\nDensity\n\nDensity is the weight of a unit volume of a material. In aircraft work, the actual weight of a material per cubic inch is preferred, since this figure can be used in determining the weight of a part before actual manufacture. Density is an important consideration when choosing a material to be used in the design of a part and still maintain the proper weight and balance of the aircraft.\n\nFusibility\n\nFusibility is defined as the ability of a metal to become liquid by the application of heat. Metals are fused in welding. Steels fuse at approximately 2,500°F, and aluminum alloys at approximately 1, 110°F.\n\nConductivity\n\nConductivity is the
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Metals have 1 or 2 or 3 electrons in their outer shell. Non metals have 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 electrons in their outer shell. (Strictly speaking, elements with 4 electrons in their outer shell are semi-metals or metalloids.)
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Well, iron is a metal that doesn't contain carbon. Both are elements i.e. substances that can't be broken down into simpler substances by a chemical reaction. Most of the known elements in the universe are metals eg. aluminium, gold, copper, but the non-metals are more abundant eg. oxygen, hydogen. They are termed metals because of their structure and the way in which they bond to other elements. Maybe by metal you meant metal alloy. Steel is an alloy (mixture) of iron and carbon. I think all alloys of iron have some carbon in them. Don't know if this is what you meant but it was good trying to think about an answer.
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Position on the periodic table: metals on the left of the line, non-metals on the right but the ones next to the line can be metalloids.\n\nmetals - conduct electricity, have metallic luster, are maleable & ductile\nmetalloids - have some physical properties of metals but behave chemically like non-metals\nnon-metals - don't conduct electricity, not malleable & not ductile
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It is usually the metal. The metal responsible for the color can be the cation, like Cu+2 in blue CuSO4, or it can be in the anion, like CrO4= in yellow Na2CrO4. Sulfur is a nonmetal, but its presence in compounds intensifies the color. CuS is an opaque dark brown. The nonmetallic ion thiocyanate, CNS-, reacts with yellow ferric [iron(III)] ion to form a brilliant red complex.\n\nAdditional detail: The metal, of course!
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A metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds. Metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions surrounded by a cloud of delocalized electrons. The metals are one of the three groups of elements as distinguished by their ionisation and bonding properties, along with the metalloids and nonmetals. On the periodic table, a diagonal line drawn from boron (B) to polonium (Po) separates the metals from the nonmetals. Elements on this line are metalloids, sometimes called semi-metals; elements to the lower left are metals; elements to the upper right are nonmetals.\n\nA modern definition of metals is that they have overlapping conduction bands and valence bands in their electronic structure. This definition opens up the category for metallic polymers and other organic metals, which have been made by researchers and employed in high-tech devices. These synthetic materials often have the characteristic silvery-grey reflectiveness of elemental metals.\n\nThe traditional definition focuses on the bulk properties of metals. They tend to be lustrous, ductile, malleable, and good conductors of electricity, while nonmetals are generally brittle (for solid nonmetals), lack lustre, and are insulators.\n\nRest all are non metals.
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Metal\n\nChemical properties\n\nMost metals are chemically unstable, reacting with oxygen in the air to form oxides over varying timescales (for example iron rusts over years and potassium burns in seconds). The alkali metals react quickest followed by the alkaline earth metals, found in the leftmost two groups of the periodic table. The transition metals take much longer to oxidise (such as iron, copper, zinc, nickel). Others, like palladium, platinum and gold, do not react with the atmosphere at all. Some metals form a barrier layer of oxide on their surface which cannot be penetrated by further oxygen molecules and thus retain their shiny appearance and good conductivity for many decades (like aluminium, some steels, and titanium). The oxides of metals are basic (as opposed to those of nonmetals, which are acidic), although this may be considered a rule of thumb, rather than an absolute condition.\n\nPainting or anodising metals are good ways to prevent their corrosion. However, a more reactive metal in the electrochemical series must be chosen for coating, especially when chipping of the coating is expected. Water and the two metals form an electrochemical cell, and if the coating is less reactive than the coatee, the coating actually promotes corrosion.\n\nPhysical properties\n\nTraditionally, metals have certain characteristic physical properties: they are usually shiny (they have "lustre"), have a high density, are ductile and malleable, usually have a high melting point, are usually hard, and conduct electricity and heat well. However this is mainly because the low density, soft, low melting point metals happen to be reactive, and we rarely encounter them in their elemental, metallic form. Metals conduct sound well, that is, they are sonorous.\n\nThe electrical and thermal conductivity of metals originate from the fact, that in the metallic bond the outer electrons of the metal atoms form a gas of nearly free electrons, moving as an electron gas in a background of positive charge formed by the ion cores. Good mathematical predictions for electrical conductivity, as well as the electrons' contribution to the heat capacity and heat conductivity of metals can be calculated from the free electron model, which does not take the detailed structure of the ion lattice into account.\n\nWhen considering the exact band structure and binding energy of a metal, it is necessary to take into account the positive potential caused by the specific arangement of the ion cores - which is periodic in crystals. The most important consequence of the periodic potential is the formation of a small band gap at the boundary of the brillouin zone. Mathematically, the potential of the ion cores is treated in the nearly-free electron model.\n\nNonmetal\n\nMost nonmetals are found at the upper right of the periodic table. The exception is hydrogen, which is usually placed at the upper left with the alkali metals, but behaves like a nonmetal under most conditions. Unlike metals, which are electrically conductive, nearly all nonmetals are either insulators or semiconductors. Graphite, an allotrope of carbon, is an example of a nonmetal that does conduct electricity. Nonmetals may form ionic bonds with metals by gaining electrons, or covalent bonds with other nonmetals. The oxides of nonmetals are acidic.\n\nThere are only eighteen known nonmetals, compared to over eighty metals, but nonmetals make up most of the earth, particularly in the outer layers. Organisms are composed almost entirely of nonmetals. Many nonmetals (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) are diatomic, and most of the rest are otherwise polyatomic.\n\nMetalloid\n\nTogether with the metals and nonmetals, the metalloids (in Greek metallon = metal and eidos = sort) form one of the three categories of chemical elements as classified by ionization and bonding properties. They have chemical properties intermediate between those of metals and no
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Elements in the same column (group) will have similar chemical properties since chemical properties are derived from the interaction of valance electrons. All groups have the same number of valance electrons:)
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the study of metals. their characteristics, and behaviours, etc.
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Transition metals are stable.  Mercury is a metallic liquid at room temperature.  Diamond and graphite are allotropes of carbon.  H, N, O, F, Cl, Br, I, At form diatomic molecules.  He, Ne,Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn are monoatomic gases at room temp.
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Hydrogen  \nHelium \nOxygen \nCarbon \nNitrogen \nSilicon  \nMagnesium  \nNeon \nIron  \nSulfur
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They r in group 1 of the periodic table. They have 1 electron in the outermost shell and form alkalies when dissolved in water.They have all the properties of metals except that they have low densities and are soft that can bet cut by a blunt knife.