What is the difference between the hydroxides of non-metals, and the hydroxides of metals?

We are already finding that on our planet, resources are being scarce, and we will see oil, nickel, copper, natural gas, indium, platinum, silver and aluminium becoming scarcer in the...

Of course, in hydroxides $O$ formally has a $-II$ oxidation state, whereas in hydrogen peroxide, $HO-OH$ (or peroxide dianion, $O-O^(2-)$, the oxygen bears an $O-O$ linkage; that is it formally...

A metalloid is an element whose properties are "in between" those of . For example, metals are excellent electothermal conductors, and nonmetals are non-conductors. Metalloids are described as semiconductors....

And a copy should be in front of you now if you are doing your chemistry or physics homework. Look at the Table, look at the left most column. You...

Metals lose electrons to become positive ions. The elemental metals bond using which uses a sea of electrons to bond unlimited numbers of atoms together. Most are metals. magnesium, iron,...

And non-metals tend to be oxidizing species......... Why? may be understood in terms of the competition between nuclear charge, $Z$, and shielding by other electrons. Unfilled electronic shells shield...

And we would also expect them to increase in the order...... $"metals"$ $<$ $"non-metals"$ $<$ $"Noble Gases"$. So why? Metals are generally regarded as electron-rich materials, whose are delocalized and...

Ionic bonds occur between anions and cations. And cations may be metallic, i.e., $M^(2+)$, or they may be non-metallic, i.e. ammonium salts, $NH_4^+$. And anions, while typically non-metallic, i.e. $X^-$...

........And non-metals typically form an ion isoelectronic with the next Noble Gas. A Group 17 element typically forms an ion with a single negative charge: $1/2X_2 + e^(-) rarr X^-$...

$M(OH)_2(s) +2HX(aq) rarr MCl_2(aq) + 2H_2O(l)$ This is, in effect, an acid base reaction, i.e.: $HO^(-) + H_3O^(+) rarr 2H_2O(l)$