a non metal which has low tensile strength
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All non-metals have low tensile strength. (Exceptional cases excluded)
For example: Sulphur, Phosphorus, Iodine etc.
Non-metals do have the property of low-tensile strength. It means that they are brittle and will easily break into pieces when excess force is applied. The only exceptional case is diamond, which is quite hard and strong. Therefore we can generally state that usually all non-metals have low tensile strength.
Metals and Non-metals that defy the usual properties:
➡ Usually non-metals are brittle in nature but diamond, an allotrope of carbon is one of the hardest known substance to man and can only be cut by another diamond.
➡ Metals are supposed to be strong with high tensile strength but the metals - sodium, potassium and lithium are soft that they can be cut with a knife.
➡ Almost all metals occur in solid form in room temperature except mercury which exists as liquid.
➡ Usually, non-metals occur as either gases or solids except bromine which exists as liquid.
➡ Bismuth is a metal that is a bad conductor of heat and electricity while usually all metals are good conductors.