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  2. IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry - Wikipedia

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    The cation is always named first. Ions can be metals, non-metals or polyatomic ions. Therefore, the name of the metal or positive polyatomic ion is followed by the name of the non-metal or negative polyatomic ion. The positive ion retains its element name whereas for a single non-metal anion the ending is changed to -ide.

  3. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    -ico/-ica, words ending in -to and -tro (plato, "plate" → platico), commonly used in Antilles, Colombia and Venezuela for words ending in -to and -tro, but also common with any kind of nouns in Aragon or Murcia.

  4. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  5. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    A non-SI, metric unit of length equal to 10 −10 metre, i.e. 1 ⁄ 10000000000 of a metre or 0.1 nanometre. The angstrom is commonly used in the natural sciences to express microscopic or atomic-scale distances, including the sizes of atomic nuclei, wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, and lengths of chemical bonds (e.g. the covalent ...

  6. Nonmetallic material - Wikipedia

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    These definitions are equivalent to stating that metals conduct electricity at absolute zero, as suggested by Nevill Francis Mott, [2]: 257 and the equivalent definition at other temperatures is also commonly used as in textbooks such as Chemistry of the Non-Metals by Ralf Steudel [3] and work on metal–insulator transitions. [4] [5]

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  8. Nonmetal - Wikipedia

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    In 1802 the term "metalloids" was introduced for elements with the physical properties of metals but the chemical properties of non-metals. [194] However, in 1811, the Swedish chemist Berzelius used the term "metalloids" [ 195 ] to describe all nonmetallic elements, noting their ability to form negatively charged ions with oxygen in aqueous ...

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    The "Alternatives to Detention" program is tracking more than 25,000 migrants using ankle and wrist-worn monitors, which costs taxpayers an average of nearly $80,000 each day, according to ICE data.