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The prefix semi-means partly. Based on your knowledge of the properties of an element, which kind of elements are most likely used to make SEMICONDUCTORS?
1) Liquids
2) Metals
3)Metalloids
4) Nonmetals
What is metalloid?
Why: A semiconductor means that it is "partly good conductor"--a metalloid has both metal properties and nonmetal properties. It makes sense that metalloids would be partly good conductors or semiconductors.