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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by narag on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:12PM (#21676845)
Maybe he meant that "elemental metal" is redundant?

In other words: can we call "metal" anything not in the periodic table?

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by klyrs on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:38PM (#21677023)
Alloys of various elemental metals are also metals, but aren't elemental.
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