Except for Germanium (Ge) and Antimony (Sb), all the elements to the left of that line can be classified as metals. These metals have properties that you normally associate with the metals you encounter in everyday life: They are solid (with the exception of mercury, Hg, a liquid).onmetals have properties opposite those of the metals. The nonmetals are brittle, not malleable or ductile, poor conductors of both heat and electricity, and tend to gain electrons in chemical reactions. Some nonmetals are liquids.
A bushel is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 4 pecks or 8 gallons. It is used for volumes of dry commodities, most often in agriculture. It is abbreviated as bsh. or bu.
Khamsah is an Arabic word that means five, but also the five fingers of the hand. It may also be taken as a reference to the primary number itself. The Hamsa is also known as the Hand of Fatima, after the daughter of the prophet Muhammad.