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Bookmark or Share- Germanium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic TableElement Germanium (Ge), Group 14, Atomic Number 32, p-block, Mass 72.630. Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images.
- Germanium - WikipediaGermanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white and similar in appearance to silicon. It is a metalloid (more rarely considered a metal) in the carbon group that is chemically similar to its group neighbors silicon and tin.
- Facts About Germanium | Live ScienceGermanium is a silvery white metalloid. This is a 2-by-3 centimeter piece of polycrystalline germanium, weighing about 12 grams.(Image credit: Jurii/Creative Commons) Shiny and silvery, yet very...
- Germanium | Properties, Uses, & Facts | BritannicaGermanium, a chemical element between silicon and tin in Group 14 (IVa) of the periodic table, a silvery-gray metalloid, intermediate in properties between the metals and the nonmetals. It did not become economically significant until after 1945, when its properties as a semiconductor were recognized.
- Germanium Element Facts - chemicool.comGermanium is a lustrous, hard, gray-white semi-metallic element with a crystalline and brittle structure. It is a semiconductor. Germanium and the oxide are transparent to infrared radiation. Germanium also has the unusual property that (like water) it expands as it freezes.
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