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Germanium is a lot like silicon: It's a semiconductor from which you can build complex electronic circuits, and in bulk form it's a dark, shiny crystalline yet sort of metallic solid. It's quite expensive, much more expensive than silicon, and not nearly as commonly used.
Germanium can also be used as an x-ray lens, because even though it's opaque to visible light, it transmits and can focus x-rays.
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Small crystal 99.9999%.
Kindly donated by David Franco, who sent many elements after seeing the slashdot discussion.
Source: David Franco
Contributor: David Franco
Acquired: 17 May, 2002
Price: Donated
Size: 0.2"
Purity: 99.9999%
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Sample from the Everest Element Set.
Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. The samples (excepted gasses) weight about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid.
To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order.
Source: Rob Accurso
Contributor: Rob Accurso
Acquired: 7 February, 2003
Price: Donated
Size: 0.2"
Purity: >99%
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