Here's why:
* Metals have strong metallic bonds: These bonds hold the atoms together tightly, requiring a lot of energy to break them.
* High boiling points: Metals generally have very high boiling points, meaning they need to be heated to extremely high temperatures to become gases.
While no metals are gaseous at room temperature, there are some elements that are gases at room temperature, but they are nonmetals:
* Oxygen (O2)
* Nitrogen (N2)
* Hydrogen (H2)
* Helium (He)
* Neon (Ne)
* Argon (Ar)
* Krypton (Kr)
* Xenon (Xe)
* Radon (Rn)
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