Do metals or nonmetals more often a gas at room temperature?

Answer 1

About half of the non-metals are gaseous at room temperature, and pressure.

With a few exceptions, all of the roughly 100 elements are metals, and under the specified circumstances, they are all solids. Can you name any metal that is not a solid at room temperature and pressure?

Of the non-metals, of which there are only about 20 or so, there are 12 (or 11) that are gaseous at room temperature and pressure. We can list these: dihydrogen, dinitrogen, dioxygen, #X_2, (X=F, Cl)#, and the seven (or actually 6) #"Noble Gases"#.

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Answer 2

Owen Ambrose

At room temperature, nonmetals are more frequently gases.

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Answer 3

Xavier Avery

Nonmetals more often exist as gases at room temperature compared to metals.

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