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Few Element are solid at room temperature

OpenStudy (anonymous):

It's to do with their bonding- as in the atoms. You are refering to metallic substances are solid because of the electrostatic forces created from the attraction of neighbouring positive nuclei of metal atoms and delocalised electrons which they lost due to low electronegativity.

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