Much more than a filler

The discovery of germanium in 1886 was the breakthrough in the theory of the periodic table of elements. Fifteen years earlier, the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev had predicted the existence of an element with precisely these properties. The special position of germanium in the periodic table, on the borderline between non-metals and metals, makes germanium chemistry an exciting research subject. Germanium was named after a country, namely Deutschland - Germany.

To the article about germanium on the website Fascination Chemistry

To the article about germanium in the series Periodic Videos