Definitions for germaniums

germaniums ger·ma·ni·um

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

Germaniums is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 852 anagrams from letters in germaniums (aegimmnrsu).

Definitions for germaniums

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 germaniums

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

Examples for germaniums

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for germaniums
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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