Definitions for germanium

germanium ger·ma·ni·um

Spelling: [jer-mey-nee-uh m]
IPA: /dʒərˈmeɪ ni əm/

Germanium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 418 anagrams from letters in germanium (aegimmnru).

Definitions for germanium

noun

  1. a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.

Origin of germanium

First recorded in 1885-90; German(y) + -ium

Examples for germanium

Other elements are named from countries or localities, as germanium and scandium.

Its negative pendant shows the same form in silicon, germanium and tin; again, the fourth was unexamined.

On the one side is carbon, with below it titanium and zirconium; on the other silicon, with germanium and tin.

Silicon has been discussed along with the non-metals, while germanium, on account of its rarity, needs only to be mentioned.

germanium: an ovary: that portion of an ovarian tube containing the cell elements.

In 1875 Lecoq de Boisbandram discovered gallium, which filled one of the gaps; scandium and germanium filled the other two later.

germanium 64 is not at all stable, and neither is Neodymium 128, but the instability can be corrected by positive beta emission.

It was a true answer, for all statements made by England culminated in the one sentence germanium esse delendam.

Tin and lead, together with silicon and germanium, form a family in Group IV of the periodic table.

Some of you will go to the germanium mines, some to the fishing fleet, some will be apprenticed to various trades.

Word Value for germanium
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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