germanium

/jer-mey-nee-uhm/US // dʒərˈmeɪ ni əm //UK // (dʒɜːˈmeɪnɪəm) //

锗,锗合金,锗元素,锗的

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n.名词 noun

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Chemistry.
- : a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.

Germanium 64 is not at all stable, and neither is Neodymium 128, but the instability can be corrected by positive beta emission.
In 1875 Lecoq de Boisbandram discovered gallium, which filled one of the gaps; scandium and germanium filled the other two later.
On the one side is carbon, with below it titanium and zirconium; on the other silicon, with germanium and tin.
Its negative pendant shows the same form in silicon, germanium and tin; again, the fourth was unexamined.
It was a true answer, for all statements made by England culminated in the one sentence Germanium esse delendam.