Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Germanium"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ekasilicon \Ek`a*sil"i*con\, n. [Skr. [=e]ka one + E. silicon.]
(Chem.)
The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards
discovered and named {germanium}; -- so called because it was
a missing analogue of the silicon group. See {Germanium}, and
cf. {Ekabor}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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