What examples best describe metals, nonmetals and metalloids?

Like which elements are these objects? Metal would be something like calcium or magnesium (group 1/2 elements on left of periodic table). A non metal are things like carbon (right side of periodic table). read more

(From SlideShare) The seven metalloids are boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, and polonium. The three types of elements occupy their own places in the Periodic Table. Metals are at the left, nonmetals are at the right, and metalloids straddle a zig-zag line that separates metals from nonmetals. read more

Metal would be something like calcium or magnesium (group 1/2 elements on left of periodic table). A non metal are things like carbon (right side of periodic table). Transition metals are the center of the table, and a metalloid is that region of the period table between transition metals and non-metals, so things like silica. read more