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English noun: germanium

1. germanium (substance) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite


Synonymsatomic number 32, Ge


Broader (hypernym)chemical element, element, semiconducting material, semiconductor


Substance meronymargyrodite, germanite









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