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Lesson: Chapter 3 — The Structure of Matter

3.6. Metals, non-metals and metalloids 11 of 19

Question 11

Which non-metal is a liquid at ordinary temperature?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Bromine.

Non-metals come in all three states, which is one of the ways they differ from metals. Carbon, sulphur, phosphorus and iodine are solids; chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen are gases; and bromine alone, among those you study, is liquid.

Answer the question to continue.