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Germanium

//d͡ʒɚˈmeɪni.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group. countable, uncountable

    "This equipment, which includes transformers, germanium rectifiers and smoothing apparatus, has been designed to allow the existing electric multiple-unit traction motors to operate on rectified alternating current."

  2. 2
    a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite wordnet
  3. 3
    An atom of this element. countable

Etymology

From Latin Germānia (“Germany”) + -ium.

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