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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 cf Ekabor...
Germanium
A rare element discovered in 1885 in a silver ore argyrodite at Freiberg It is a brittle silver white metal chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals resembles tin and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon Symbol Ge Atomic number 32 Atomic weight 7259 It has excellent semiconductor properties and is used in transistors and diodes...
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