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  • noun Plural form of semimetal.

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  • "A whole bouquet of heavy metals, semimetals and other chemical compounds lurk inside your seemingly innocent laptop or TV," says Jessika Toothman at HowStuffWorks. com.

    Text is a Verb 2009

  • These elements are classified as metalloids or semimetals.

    Elements 2009

  • “A whole bouquet of heavy metals, semimetals and other chemical compounds lurk inside your seemingly innocent laptop or TV,” adds Jessika Toothman at HowStuffWorks. com.

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  • Prize of USSR, for the works on semimetals and gapless semiconductors.

    Alexei A. Abrikosov - Autobiography 2004

  • In 1962 – 63 with my postgraduate L. Falkovsky we constructed the theory of semimetals of the Bi type.

    Alexei A. Abrikosov - Autobiography 2004

  • How do you make transistors, for instance, before you can refine ultrapure semimetals?

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • Thin, elongated strips of graphene that possess straight edges, termed graphene ribbons, gradually transform from semiconductors to semimetals as their width increases, and represent a particularly versatile variety of graphene.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2009

  • "A whole bouquet of heavy metals, semimetals and other chemical compounds lurk inside your seemingly innocent laptop or TV," says Jessika Toothman at HowStuffWorks. com.

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