Poor metal

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The poor metals or post-transition metals are the metallic elements of the p-block of the periodic table, occurring between the metalloids and the transition metals. They are more electropositive than the transition metals, but less so than the alkali metals and alkaline earth metals. Their melting and boiling points are generally lower than those of the transition metals, and they are also softer.

The poor metals are aluminium, gallium, indium, tin, thallium, lead, and bismuth, and sometimes included are germanium, antimony and polonium. Elements 113 to 116 are provisionally included in this category, and are known temporarily as: ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium and ununhexium.

13	14	15	16	17
B Boron	C Carbon	N Nitrogen	O Oxygen	F Fluorine
Al Aluminium	Si Silicon	P Phosphorus	S Sulfur	Cl Chlorine
Ga Gallium	Ge Germanium	As Arsenic	Se Selenium	Br Bromine
In Indium	Sn Tin	Sb Antimony	Te Tellurium	I Iodine
Tl Thallium	Pb Lead	Bi Bismuth	Po Polonium	At Astatine

See also

• Periodic table

Periodic tables
Standard table | Vertical table | Table with names | Names and atomic masses (large) | Names and atomic masses (small) | Names and atomic masses (text only) | Inline F-block | Elements to 218 | Electron configurations | Metals and nonmetals | Table by blocks
Lists of elements
Name | Atomic symbol | Atomic number | Boiling point | Melting point | Density | Atomic mass
Groups:   1 -  2 -  3 -  4 -  5 -  6 -  7 -  8 -  9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18
Periods:  1  -  2  -  3  -  4  -  5  -  6  -  7  -  8  -  9
Series:   Alkalis  -  Alkaline earths  -  Lanthanides  -  Actinides  -  Transition metals  -  Poor metals  -  Metalloids  -  Nonmetals  -  Halogens  -  Noble gases
Blocks:  s-block  -  p-block  -  d-block  -  f-block  -  g-block

 

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