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compared to metals and nonmetals, how do atoms of semimetals bahave when combining with atoms of other elements?

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They behave a metals when combining with non-metals and they behave as non-metals when combining with metals. Elements that can act as both metal and non-metal are known as amphoteres (they are amphoteric)

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