1. The term " metalloid " originally referred to nonmetals. 2. Metalloids are usually too brittle to have any structural uses.3. Selenium is commonly described as a metalloid in the environmental chemistry literature. 4. It is the most important source for the metalloid antimony. 5. Actually, are these authors crucial to the near-metalloid definition? 6. Germanium is usually considered to be a metalloid rather than a metal. 7. The number and identities of metalloids depend on what classification criteria are used. 8. Among the lighter metalloids , alloys with transition metals are well-represented. 9. Classifying aluminium as a metalloid has been disputed given its many metallic properties. 10. The metalloids occupy the octahedrally coordinated " B " sites in these compounds.