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Well, non metal are brittle - not malleable/bendy unlike metals - though many are gasses, usually poor conductors of electricity and heat, usually melt at low temperatures and they are simply not shiny.

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non metals have no lustre non metals are brittle they are not msllesble or ductile non metals are either a solid or gas at room temperature, except for bromine which is a liquid

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crumbly,dull,usually gasses,nonconductors,not malleable.chalk is a compundone,but it has simmaler properties to solid nonmetals

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