GERMANIUM

The germanium is a chemical element with atomic number 32, and symbol Ge belonging to the group 4 of the periodic table of the elements.
It is a solid hard, crystalline metal, of white greyish glossy and fragile color. He presents the same crystalline structure that the diamond and it resists to the acids. The germanium is very distributed in the terrestrial bark The properties of the germanium (of the Latin Slang, Germany) they were predicted in 1871 by Mendeleyev depending on his position in the periodic table. The German Clemens Winkler demonstrated in 1886 the existence of this element.
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