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Utensils made of pyrex glass can be used for heating. Is glass a metal?

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Most glasses are made up of about 75% silicon dioxide, which is a metalloid. Glass fall short of the characteristic that qualify an element as a metal, which includes; malleable, good thermal and electricalconductivity, ductile andfusible. Glasses, however,haveother metals incorporated in the form of oxides such as Calcium oxide and sodium oxide.



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