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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Germanium \Ger*ma"ni*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. Germania Germany.]
(Chem.)
A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore
(argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white
metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and
nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with
the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
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germanium
n : a brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting
metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors;
occurs in germanite and argyrodite [syn: {Ge}, {atomic
number 32}]