Question

What best describes the states of nonmetals when they are at room temperature? Most nonmetals are gaseous, but some are liquid or solid. All nonmetals are gaseous unless they bond with a metal. Most nonmetals are solids, but some are gaseous or liquid. All nonmetals are solid unless they bond with a metal.

Answer 1

Answer: Option (a) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Non-metals are the substances that are deficient in electrons as compared to metals.

For example, carbon, selenium, bromine, chlorine, phosphorous etc are all non-metals.

At room temperature, hydrogen, helium, fluorine, chlorine etc all exist as gases. Whereas some non-metals exist as solid like carbon, phosphorous, sulfur, selenium, iodine etc.

But bromine exist as a liquid.

Hence, we can conclude that the statement Most nonmetals are gaseous, but some are liquid or solid, is true.

Answer 2

I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is the first option. The statement that best describes the state of metals when they are at room temperature would be that most nonmetals are gaseous, but some are liquid or solid. Hope this answers the question. Have a nice day.