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Noun
  1. 1
    An allotrope of germanium that has a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene uncountable

    "Calculating the complex dielectric function for optical interband transitions we show that the two-dimensional crystals silicene and germanene possess the same low-frequency absorbance as graphene."

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"Calculating the complex dielectric function for optical interband transitions we show that the two-dimensional crystals silicene and germanene possess the same low-frequency absorbance as graphene."

Etymology

From germanium + -ene.

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