In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.

passage: Carbon (from Latin: carbo ''coal'') is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent--making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Three isotopes occur naturally, C and C being stable, while C is a radionuclide, decaying with a half-life of about 5,730 years. Carbon is one of the few elements known since antiquity.
question: is carbon a metal on the periodic table?
Yes