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Uncommon card · Science
Metalloid, an Uncommon card
The word metalloid comes from the Latin metallum and the Greek oeidḗs.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 97
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 197
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Ranked #32 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Metalloid quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Metalloid card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Despite the lack of ______, the term remains in use in the literature.
Answer
specificity. Despite the lack of specificity, the term remains in use in the literature. From the Metalloid article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Periodic table. Periodic table 3,400,000 · Dassault Rafale 1,100,000 · Metalloid 130,000 · List of Italian inventions and discoveries 23,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- However, there is no standard definition of a metalloid and no complete agreement on which elements are metalloids.
- Despite the lack of specificity, the term remains in use in the literature.
- The six commonly recognised metalloids are boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Metalloid article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 97 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Metalloid
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Metalloid (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Double sharp , based on File:Simple Periodic Table Chart-en.svg by User:Offnfopt, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
