Older houses donât have their data inputted into the database as of yet. If youâre lucky enough to live in one of these older buildings you should check as to whether your property is in the database. If it isnât, your housing deed documents are important. Keep them safe and keep them secure.
In terms of non-metals, the electrons are held tightly by the nucleus. Therefore nonmetals are very unwilling to give their electrons away. Nonmetals don't donate electrons as easily as metals, so society and chemists from the early ages distinguished between metals and nonmetals, Regards, Mike
1 are poor conductors of heat and electricity. 2  don't like to lose electrons. 3  Most nonmetals are gases at room temperature; however, a few are solids and only one (bromine) is a liquid. 4  The noble gases are an unreactive group of nonmetals that like to exist as independent atoms, or be monatomic.