Which element? Most elements are metals, but some are nonmetals and semimetals.
Metal: Mercury Non-Metal: Oxygen
Metals, on the left hand side of the periodic table, have few electrons in the outer shell. This lends itself to what is called metallic bonding in which many atoms of the elements share their outer...
Metalloids (B, Si, Ge, As, Sb, Te, At)
metalliods like Se,Ge..