Thesaurus: germanium

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1. n. A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white">silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
2. n. a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
3. A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white">silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
4. A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore(argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white">silver-white metal,chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resemblestin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon.Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
5. n:100 n. a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite