When a metal and a nonmetal react, the tends to lose electrons and the tends to gain electrons?

Metal loses electrons and nonmetal accepts electrons .

Non metal is an element or substance that is not a metal metal is a solid material that is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivitymetalloid is an element (e.g., germanium or silicon) whose properties are intermediate between those of metals and solid nonmetals. they are electrical semiconductors.

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