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germanium
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Ekasilicon \Ek`a*sil"i*con\, n. [Skr. [=e]ka one + E. silicon.] (Chem.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium ; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium , and ...
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n. a brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite [syn: Ge , atomic number 32 ]
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A nonmetallic chemical element (''symbol'' Ge) with an atomic number of 32. 2 (cx countable English) An atom of this element.
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Germanium is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group , chemically similar to its group neighbors tin and silicon . Pure germanium is a semiconductor with an appearance similar ...
Usage examples of germanium.
The subsequent discoveries of gallium, scandium, and germanium bore out his predictions.
Implanted in the pale amber skull from just above the crimson-irised eyes was a neural net of germanium and tertium wafers floating in a semiorganic material.
The artfully constructed latticework of tertium and germanium circuits at the crown of his head was perfectly intact.
Carbon is a nonmetal but has the same cubic crystal structure as its nearest neighbors in Group IV, silicon, germanium, and gray tin.
Besides that, the ore also contained other valuable metals like cobalt and the platinum-group metals, as well as nonmetals like sulfur, arsenic, selenium, germanium, phosphorus, carbon.
Fabr-Suithe could hold them off for a long time, but it was clearly time for the bindlestiff to leave—time for it to make off with its women and its anti-agapics and its germanium, time for it to lose itself in the Rift before the Earth police could invest all of He.
The native American wild germanium or crane's-bill belongs to Oh, come on now!
You took any piece, crushed it, gasified it, ionized it, put it through the electromagnetic isotope separator, and drew forth as much (or, rather, as minutely little) germanium as any other piece would have given you.
Assuming that the spell works, though, we can play Mendeleev and predict the properties of eka-lead by extrapolating from those in the 'lead' series in the periodic table (carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, lead).
The rise of the metal germanium as the jinn of solid-state physics.
That same morning, as all the experts and high officials of the secret police shook their heads, bleary-eyed after a sleepless night, the constructors asked for quartz, vanadium, steel, copper, platinum, rhinestones, dysprosium, yttrium and thulium, also cerium and germanium, and most of the other elements that make up the Universe, plus a variety of machines and qualified technicians, not to mention a wide as sortment of spies--for so insolent had the constructors become, that on the triplicate requisition form they boldly wrote: "Also, kindly send agents of various cuts and stripes at the discretion and with the approval of the Proper Authorities.
Half the lattice is gone: there, the germanium was simply whiffed away.