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Not to be confused with geranium.
chemical element with atomic number 32
Germanium, 32Ge
General properties
Pronunciation
/dʒərˈmeɪniəm/ (jər-MAY-nee-əm)
Appearance
grayish-white
Standard atomic weight (Ar, standard)
7001726300000000000♠72.630(8)[1]
Germanium in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson
Si
↑
Ge
↓
Sn
gallium ← germanium → arsenic
Atomic number (Z)
32
Group
group 14 (carbon group)
Period
period 4
Block
p-block
Element category
metalloid
Electron configuration
[Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p2
Electrons per shell
2, 8, 18, 4
Physical properties
Phase at STP
solid
Melting point
1211.40 K (938.25 °C, 1720.85 °F)
Boiling point
3106 K (2833 °C, 5131 °F)
Density (near r.t.)
5.323 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)
5.60 g/cm3
Heat of fusion
36.94 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization
334 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity
23.222 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure
P (Pa)
1
10
100
1 k
10 k
100 k
at T (K)
1644 1814 2023 2287 2633 3104
Atomic properties
Oxidation states
4, 3, 2, 1, 0, −1, −2, −3, −4 (an amphoteric oxide)
Electronegativity
Pauling scale: 2.01
Ionization energies
1st: 762 kJ/mol
2nd: 1537.5 kJ/mol
3rd: 3302.1 kJ/mol
Atomic radius
empirical: 122 pm
Covalent radius
122 pm
Van der Waals radius
211 pm
Spectral lines of germanium
Other properties
Crystal structure
face-centered diamond-cubic
Speed of sound thin rod
5400 m/s (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion
6.0 µm/(m·K)
Thermal conductivity
60.2 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity
1 Ω·m (at 20 °C)
Band gap
0.67 eV (at 300 K)
Magnetic ordering
diamagnetic[2]
Magnetic susceptibility
−76.84·10−6 cm3/mol[3]
Young's modulus
103 GPa[4]
Shear modulus
41 GPa[4]
Bulk modulus
75 GPa[4]
Poisson ratio
0.26[4]
Mohs hardness
6.0
CAS Number
7440-56-4
History
Naming
after Germany, homeland of the discoverer
Prediction
Dmitri Mendeleev (1871)
Discovery
Clemens Winkler (1886)
Main isotopes of germanium
Isotope
Abundance
Half-life (t1/2)
Decay mode
Product
68Ge
syn 270.8 d ε 68Ga
70Ge
20.52% stable
71Ge
syn 11.3 d ε 71Ga
72Ge
27.45% stable
73Ge
7.76% stable
74Ge
36.52% stable
76Ge
7.75% 1.78×1021 y β−β− 76Se
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Germanium is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors tin and silicon. Pure germanium is a semiconductor with an appearance similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature.
Because it seldom appears in high concentration, germanium was discovered comparatively late in the history of chemistry. Germanium ranks near fiftieth in relative abundance of the elements in the Earth's crust. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev predicted its existence and some of its properties from its position on his periodic table, and called the element ekasilicon. Nearly two decades later, in 1886, Clemens Winkler found the new element along with silver and sulfur, in a rare mineral called argyrodite. Although the new element somewhat resembled arsenic and antimony in appearance, the combining ratios in compounds agreed with Mendeleev's predictions for a relative of silicon. Winkler named the element after his country, Germany. Today, germanium is mined primarily from sphalerite (the primary ore of zinc), though germanium is also recovered commercially from silver, lead, and copper ores.
Elemental germanium is used as a semiconductor in transistors and various other electronic devices. Historically, the first decade of semiconductor electronics was based entirely on germanium. Today, the amount of germanium produced for semiconductor electronics is one fiftieth the amount of ultra-high purity silicon produced for the same. Presently, the major end uses are fibre-optic systems, infrared optics, solar cell applications, and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Germanium compounds are also used for polymerization catalysts and have most recently found use in the production of nanowires. This element forms a large number of organometallic compounds, such as tetraethylgermane, useful in organometallic chemistry.
Germanium is not thought to be an essential element for any living organism. Some complex organic germanium compounds are being investigated as possible pharmaceuticals, though none have yet proven successful. Similar to silicon and aluminum, natural germanium compounds tend to be insoluble in water and thus have little oral toxicity. However, synthetic soluble germanium salts are nephrotoxic, and synthetic chemically reactive germanium compounds with halogens and hydrogen are irritants and toxins.
Contents
1 History
2 Characteristics
2.1 Chemistry
2.2 Isotopes
2.3 Occurrence
3 Production
4 Applications
4.1 Optics
4.2 Electronics
4.3 Other uses
4.4 Germanium and health
5 Precautions for chemically reactive germanium compounds
6 Future
7 See also
8 Footnotes
9 References
10 External links
History[edit]
See also: History of the transistor
Samples of germanium compounds prepared by Clemens Winkler, discoverer of the element
In his report on The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements in 1869, the Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev predicted the existence of several unknown chemical elements, including one that would fill a gap in the carbon family in his Periodic Table of the Elements, located between silicon and tin.[5] Because of its position in his Periodic Table, Mendeleev called it ekasilicon (Es), and he estimated its atomic weight to be about 72.0.
In mid-1885, at a mine near Freiberg, Saxony, a new mineral was discovered and named argyrodite because of the high silver content.[n 1] The chemist Clemens Winkler analyzed this new mineral, which proved to be a combination of silver, sulfur, and a new element. Winkler was able to isolate the new element in 1886 and found it similar to antimony. He initially considered the new element to be eka-antimony, but was soon convinced that it was instead eka-silicon.[7][8] Before Winkler published his results on the new element, he decided that he would name his element neptunium, since the recent discovery of planet Neptune in 1846 had similarly been preceded by mathematical predictions of its existence.[n 2] However, the name "neptunium" had already been given to another proposed chemical element (though not the element that today bears the name neptunium, which was discovered in 1940).[n 3] So instead, Winkler named the new element germanium (from the Latin word, Germania, for Germany) in honor of his homeland.[8] Argyrodite proved empirically to be Ag8GeS6.
Because this new element showed some similarities with the elements arsenic and antimony, its proper place in the periodic table was under consideration, but its similarities with Dmitri Mendeleev's predicted element "ekasilicon" confirmed that place on the periodic table.[8][15] With further material from 500 kg of ore from the mines in Saxony, Winkler confirmed the chemical properties of the new element in 1887.[7][8][16] He also determined an atomic weight of 72.32 by analyzing pure germanium tetrachloride (GeCl
4), while Lecoq de Boisbaudran deduced 72.3 by a comparison of the lines in the spark spectrum of the element.[17]
Winkler was able to prepare several new compounds of germanium, including fluorides, chlorides, sulfides, dioxide, and tetraethylgermane (Ge(C2H5)4), the first organogermane.[7] The physical data from those compounds — which corresponded well with Mendeleev's predictions — made the discovery an important confirmation of Mendeleev's idea of element periodicity. Here is a comparison between the prediction and Winkler's data:[7]
Property
Ekasilicon
Germanium
atomic mass 72.64 72.59
density (g/cm3) 5.5 5.35
melting point (°C) high 947
color gray gray
oxide type refractory dioxide refractory dioxide
oxide density (g/cm3) 4.7 4.7
oxide activity feebly basic feebly basic
chloride boiling point (°C) under 100 86 (GeCl4)
chloride density (g/cm3) 1.9 1.9
Until the late 1930s, germanium was thought to be a poorly conducting metal.[18] Germanium did not become economically significant until after 1945 when its properties as an electronic semiconductor were recognized. During World War II, small amounts of germanium were used in some special electronic devices, mostly diodes.[19][20] The first major use was the point-contact Schottky diodes for radar pulse detection during the War.[18] The first silicon-germanium alloys were obtained in 1955.[21] Before 1945, only a few hundred kilograms of germanium were produced in smelters each year, but by the end of the 1950s, the annual worldwide production had reached 40 metric tons.[22]
The development of the germanium transistor in 1948[23] opened the door to countless applications of solid state electronics.[24] From 1950 through the early 1970s, this area provided an increasing market for germanium, but then high-purity silicon began replacing germanium in transistors, diodes, and rectifiers.[25] For example, the company that became Fairchild Semiconductor was founded in 1957 with the express purpose of producing silicon transistors. Silicon has superior electrical properties, but it requires much greater purity that could not be commercially achieved in the early years of semiconductor electronics.[26]
Meanwhile, the demand for germanium for fiber optic communication networks, infrared night vision systems, and polymerization catalysts increased dramatically.[22] These end uses represented 85% of worldwide germanium consumption in 2000.[25] The US government even designated germanium as a strategic and critical material, calling for a 146 ton (132 t) supply in the national defense stockpile in 1987.[22]
Germanium differs from silicon in that the supply is limited by the availability of exploitable sources, while the supply of silicon is limited only by production capacity since silicon comes from ordinary sand and quartz. While silicon could be bought in 1998 for less than $10 per kg,[22] the price of germanium was almost $800 per kg.[22]
Characteristics[edit]
Under standard conditions, germanium is a brittle, silvery-white, semi-metallic element.[27] This form constitutes an allotrope known as α-germanium, which has a metallic luster and a diamond cubic crystal structure, the same as diamond.[25] At pressures above 120 kbar, it becomes the allotrope β-germanium with the same structure as β-tin.[28] Like silicon, gallium, bismuth, antimony, and water, germanium is one of the few substances that expands as it solidifies (i.e. freezes) from the molten state.[28]
Germanium is a semiconductor. Zone refining techniques have led to the production of crystalline germanium for semiconductors that has an impurity of only one part in 1010,[29] making it one of the purest materials ever obtained.[30] The first metallic material discovered (in 2005) to become a superconductor in the presence of an extremely strong electromagnetic field was an alloy of germanium, uranium, and rhodium.[31]
Pure germanium suffers from the forming of whiskers by spontaneous screw dislocations. If a whisker grows long enough to touch another part of the assembly or a metallic packaging, it can effectively shunt out a p-n junction. This is one of the primary reasons for the failure of old germanium diodes and transistors.
Chemistry[edit]
See also: Category:Germanium compounds.
Elemental germanium oxidizes slowly to GeO2 at 250 °C.[32] Germanium is insoluble in dilute acids and alkalis but dissolves slowly in hot concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids and reacts violently with molten alkalis to produce germanates ([GeO
3]2−
). Germanium occurs mostly in the oxidation state +4 although many +2 compounds are known.[33] Other oxidation states are rare: +3 is found in compounds such as Ge2Cl6, and +3 and +1 are found on the surface of oxides,[34] or negative oxidation states in germanes, such as −4 in GeH
4. Germanium cluster anions (Zintl ions) such as Ge42−, Ge94−, Ge92−, [(Ge9)2]6− have been prepared by the extraction from alloys containing alkali metals and germanium in liquid ammonia in the presence of ethylenediamine or a cryptand.[33][35] The oxidation states of the element in these ions are not integers—similar to the ozonides O3−.
Two oxides of germanium are known: germanium dioxide (GeO
2, germania) and germanium monoxide, (GeO).[28] The dioxide, GeO2 can be obtained by roasting germanium disulfide (GeS
2), and is a white powder that is only slightly soluble in water but reacts with alkalis to form germanates.[28] The monoxide, germanous oxide, can be obtained by the high temperature reaction of GeO2 with Ge metal.[28] The dioxide (and the related oxides and germanates) exhibits the unusual property of having a high refractive index for visible light, but transparency to infrared light.[36][37] Bismuth germanate, Bi4Ge3O12, (BGO) is used as a scintillator.[38]
Binary compounds with other chalcogens are also known, such as the disulfide (GeS
2), diselenide (GeSe
2), and the monosulfide (GeS), selenide (GeSe), and telluride (GeTe).[33] GeS2 forms as a white precipitate when hydrogen sulfide is passed through strongly acid solutions containing Ge(IV).[33] The disulfide is appreciably soluble in water and in solutions of caustic alkalis or alkaline sulfides. Nevertheless, it is not soluble in acidic water, which allowed Winkler to discover the element.[39] By heating the disulfide in a current of hydrogen, the monosulfide (GeS) is formed, which sublimes in thin plates of a dark color and metallic luster, and is soluble in solutions of the caustic alkalis.[28] Upon melting with alkaline carbonates and sulfur, germanium compounds form salts known as thiogermanates.[40]
Germane is similar to methane.
Four tetrahalides are known. Under normal conditions GeI4 is a solid, GeF4 a gas and the others volatile liquids. For example, germanium tetrachloride, GeCl4, is obtained as a colorless fuming liquid boiling at 83.1 °C by heating the metal with chlorine.[28] All the tetrahalides are readily hydrolyzed to hydrated germanium dioxide.[28] GeCl4 is used in the production of organogermanium compounds.[33] All four dihalides are known and in contrast to the tetrahalides are polymeric solids.[33] Additionally Ge2Cl6 and some higher compounds of formula GenCl2n+2 are known.[28] The unusual compound Ge6Cl16 has been prepared that contains the Ge5Cl12 unit with a neopentane structure.[41]
Germane (GeH4) is a compound similar in structure to methane. Polygermanes—compounds that are similar to alkanes—with formula GenH2n+2 containing up to five germanium atoms are known.[33] The germanes are less volatile and less reactive than their corresponding silicon analogues.[33] GeH4 reacts with alkali metals in liquid ammonia to form white crystalline MGeH3 which contain the GeH3− anion.[33] The germanium hydrohalides with one, two and three halogen atoms are colorless reactive liquids.[33]
Nucleophilic addition with an organogermanium compound.
The first organogermanium compound was synthesized by Winkler in 1887; the reaction of germanium tetrachloride with diethylzinc yielded tetraethylgermane (Ge(C
2H
5)
4).[7] Organogermanes of the type R4Ge (where R is an alkyl) such as tetramethylgermane (Ge(CH
3)
4) and tetraethylgermane are accessed through the cheapest available germanium precursor germanium tetrachloride and alkyl nucleophiles. Organic germanium hydrides such as isobutylgermane ((CH
3)
2CHCH
2GeH
3) were found to be less hazardous and may be used as a liquid substitute for toxic germane gas in semiconductor applications. Many germanium reactive intermediates are known: germyl free radicals, germylenes (similar to carbenes), and germynes (similar to carbynes).[42][43] The organogermanium compound 2-carboxyethylgermasesquioxane was first reported in the 1970s, and for a while was used as a dietary supplement and thought to possibly have anti-tumor qualities.[44]
Using a ligand called Eind (1,1,3,3,5,5,7,7-octaethyl-s-hydrindacen-4-yl) germanium is able to form a double bond with oxygen (germanone).[45]
Isotopes[edit]
Main article: Isotopes of germanium
Germanium occurs in 5 natural isotopes: 70
Ge
, 72
Ge
, 73
Ge
, 74
Ge
, and 76
Ge
. Of these, 76
Ge
is very slightly radioactive, decaying by double beta decay with a half-life of 7028561725280000000♠1.78×1021 years. 74
Ge
is the most common isotope, having a natural abundance of approximately 36%. 76
Ge
is the least common with a natural abundance of approximately 7%.[46] When bombarded with alpha particles, the isotope 72
Ge
will generate stable 77
Se
, releasing high energy electrons in the process.[47] Because of this, it is used in combination with radon for nuclear batteries.[47]
At least 27 radioisotopes have also been synthesized, ranging in atomic mass from 58 to 89. The most stable of these is 68
Ge
, decaying by electron capture with a half-life of 7007234100800000000♠270.95 days. The least stable is 60
Ge
, with a half-life of 6998300000000000000♠30 ms. While most of germanium's radioisotopes decay by beta decay, 61
Ge
and 64
Ge
decay by
β+
delayed proton emission.[46] 84
Ge
through 87
Ge
isotopes also exhibit minor
β−
delayed neutron emission decay paths.[46]
Occurrence[edit]
See also: Category:Germanium minerals.
Germanium is created by stellar nucleosynthesis, mostly by the s-process in asymptotic giant branch stars. The s-process is a slow neutron capture of lighter elements inside pulsating red giant stars.[48] Germanium has been detected in some of the most distant stars[49] and in the atmosphere of Jupiter.[50]
Germanium's abundance in the Earth's crust is approximately 1.6 ppm.[51] Only a few minerals like argyrodite, briartite, germanite, and renierite contain appreciable amounts of germanium.[25][52] Only few of them (especially germanite) are, very rarely, found in mineable amounts.[53][54][55] Some zinc-copper-lead ore bodies contain enough germanium to justify extraction from the final ore concentrate.[51] An unusual natural enrichment process causes a high content of germanium in some coal seams, discovered by Victor Moritz Goldschmidt during a broad survey for germanium deposits.[56][57] The highest concentration ever found was in Hartley coal ash with as much as 1.6% germanium.[56][57] The coal deposits near Xilinhaote, Inner Mongolia, contain an estimated 1600 tonnes of germanium.[51]
Production[edit]
Renierite
About 118 tonnes of germanium was produced in 2011 worldwide, mostly in China (80 t), Russia (5 t) and United States (3 t).[25] Germanium is recovered as a by-product from sphalerite zinc ores where it is concentrated in amounts as great as 0.3%,[58] especially from low-temperature sediment-hosted, massive Zn–Pb–Cu(–Ba) deposits and carbonate-hosted Zn–Pb deposits.[59] A recent study found that at least 10,000 t of extractable germanium is contained in known zinc reserves, particularly those hosted by Mississippi-Valley type deposits, while at least 112,000 t will be found in coal reserves.[60][61] In 2007 35% of the demand was met by recycled germanium.[51]
While it is produced mainly from sphalerite, it is also found in silver, lead, and copper ores. Another source of germanium is fly ash of power plants fueled from coal deposits that contain germanium. Russia and China used this as a source for germanium.[62] Russia's deposits are located in the far east of Sakhalin Island, and northeast of Vladivostok. The deposits in China are located mainly in the lignite mines near Lincang, Yunnan; coal is also mined near Xilinhaote, Inner Mongolia.[51]
Year
Cost
($/kg)[63]
1999 1,400
2000 1,250
2001 890
2002 620
2003 380
2004 600
2005 660
2006 880
2007 1,240
2008 1,490
2009 950
2010 940
2011 1,625
2012 1,680
2013 1,875
2014 1,900
2015 1,760
2016 950
The ore concentrates are mostly sulfidic; they are converted to the oxides by heating under air in a process known as roasting:
GeS2 + 3 O2 → GeO2 + 2 SO2
Some of the germanium is left in the dust produced, while the rest is converted to germanates, which are then leached (together with zinc) from the cinder by sulfuric acid. After neutralization, only the zinc stays in solution while germanium and other metals precipitate. After removing some of the zinc in the precipitate by the Waelz process, the residing Waelz oxide is leached a second time. The dioxide is obtained as precipitate and converted with chlorine gas or hydrochloric acid to germanium tetrachloride, which has a low boiling point and can be isolated by distillation:[62]
GeO2 + 4 HCl → GeCl4 + 2 H2O
GeO2 + 2 Cl2 → GeCl4 + O2
Germanium tetrachloride is either hydrolyzed to the oxide (GeO2) or purified by fractional distillation and then hydrolyzed.[62] The highly pure GeO2 is now suitable for the production of germanium glass. It is reduced to the element by reacting it with hydrogen, producing germanium suitable for infrared optics and semiconductor production:
GeO2 + 2 H2 → Ge + 2 H2O
The germanium for steel production and other industrial processes is normally reduced using carbon:[64]
GeO2 + C → Ge + CO2
Applications[edit]
A typical single-mode optical fiber. Germanium oxide is a dopant of the core silica (Item 1).
1. Core 8 µm
2. Cladding 125 µm
3. Buffer 250 µm
4. Jacket 400 µm
The major end uses for germanium in 2007, worldwide, were estimated to be: 35% for fiber-optics, 30% infrared optics, 15% polymerization catalysts, and 15% electronics and solar electric applications.[25] The remaining 5% went into such uses as phosphors, metallurgy, and chemotherapy.[25]
Optics[edit]
The notable properties of germania (GeO2) are its high index of refraction and its low optical dispersion. These make it especially useful for wide-angle camera lenses, microscopy, and the core part of optical fibers.[65][66] It has replaced titania as the dopant for silica fiber, eliminating the subsequent heat treatment that made the fibers brittle.[67] At the end of 2002, the fiber optics industry consumed 60% of the annual germanium use in the United States, but this is less than 10% of worldwide consumption.[66] GeSbTe is a phase change material used for its optic properties, such as that used in rewritable DVDs.[68]
Because germanium is transparent in the infrared wavelengths, it is an important infrared optical material that can be readily cut and polished into lenses and windows. It is especially used as the front optic in thermal imaging cameras working in the 8 to 14 micron range for passive thermal imaging and for hot-spot detection in military, mobile night vision, and fire fighting applications.[64] It is used in infrared spectroscopes and other optical equipment that require extremely sensitive infrared detectors.[66] It has a very high refractive index (4.0) and must be coated with anti-reflection agents. Particularly, a very hard special antireflection coating of diamond-like carbon (DLC), refractive index 2.0, is a good match and produces a diamond-hard surface that can withstand much environmental abuse.[69][70]
Electronics[edit]
Silicon-germanium alloys are rapidly becoming an important semiconductor material for high-speed integrated circuits. Circuits utilizing the properties of Si-SiGe junctions can be much faster than those using silicon alone.[71] Silicon-germanium is beginning to replace gallium arsenide (GaAs) in wireless communications devices.[25] The SiGe chips, with high-speed properties, can be made with low-cost, well-established production techniques of the silicon chip industry.[25]
Solar panels are a major use of germanium. Germanium is the substrate of the wafers for high-efficiency multijunction photovoltaic cells for space applications. High-brightness LEDs, used for automobile headlights and to backlight LCD screens, are an important application.[25]
Because germanium and gallium arsenide have very similar lattice constants, germanium substrates can be used to make gallium arsenide solar cells.[72] The Mars Exploration Rovers and several satellites use triple junction gallium arsenide on germanium cells.[73]
Germanium-on-insulator substrates are seen as a potential replacement for silicon on miniaturized chips.[25] Other uses in electronics include phosphors in fluorescent lamps[29] and solid-state light-emitting diodes (LEDs).[25] Germanium transistors are still used in some effects pedals by musicians who wish to reproduce the distinctive tonal character of the "fuzz"-tone from the early rock and roll era, most notably the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face.[74]
Other uses[edit]
A PET bottle
Germanium dioxide is also used in catalysts for polymerization in the production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).[75] The high brilliance of this polyester is especially favored for PET bottles marketed in Japan.[75] In the United States, germanium is not used for polymerization catalysts.[25]
Due to the similarity between silica (SiO2) and germanium dioxide (GeO2), the silica stationary phase in some gas chromatography columns can be replaced by GeO2.[76]
In recent years germanium has seen increasing use in precious metal alloys. In sterling silver alloys, for instance, it reduces firescale, increases tarnish resistance, and improves precipitation hardening. A tarnish-proof silver alloy trademarked Argentium contains 1.2% germanium.[25]
Semiconductor detectors made of single crystal high-purity germanium can precisely identify radiation sources—for example in airport security.[77] Germanium is useful for monochromators for beamlines used in single crystal neutron scattering and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The reflectivity has advantages over silicon in neutron and high energy X-ray applications.[78] Crystals of high purity germanium are used in detectors for gamma spectroscopy and the search for dark matter.[79] Germanium crystals are also used in X-ray spectrometers for the determination of phosphorus, chlorine and sulfur.[80]
Germanium is emerging as an important material for spintronics and spin-based quantum computing applications. In 2010, researchers demonstrated room temperature spin transport [81] and more recently donor electron spins in germanium has been shown to have very long coherence times.[82]
Germanium and health[edit]
Germanium is not considered essential to the health of plants or animals.[83] Germanium in the environment has little or no health impact. This is primarily because it usually occurs only as a trace element in ores and carbonaceous materials, and the various industrial and electronic applications involve very small quantities that are not likely to be ingested.[25] For similar reasons, end-use germanium has little impact on the environment as a biohazard. Some reactive intermediate compounds of germanium are poisonous (see precautions, below).[84]
Germanium supplements, made from both organic and inorganic germanium, have been marketed as an alternative medicine capable of treating leukemia and lung cancer.[22] There is, however, no medical evidence of benefit; some evidence suggests that such supplements are actively harmful.[83]
Some germanium compounds have been administered by alternative medical practitioners as non-FDA-allowed injectable solutions. Soluble inorganic forms of germanium used at first, notably the citrate-lactate salt, resulted in some cases of renal dysfunction, hepatic steatosis, and peripheral neuropathy in individuals using them over a long term. Plasma and urine germanium concentrations in these individuals, several of whom died, were several orders of magnitude greater than endogenous levels. A more recent organic form, beta-carboxyethylgermanium sesquioxide (propagermanium), has not exhibited the same spectrum of toxic effects.[85]
U.S. Food and Drug Administration research has concluded that inorganic germanium, when used as a nutritional supplement, "presents potential human health hazard".[44]
Certain compounds of germanium have low toxicity to mammals, but have toxic effects against certain bacteria.[27]
Precautions for chemically reactive germanium compounds[edit]
Some of germanium's artificially-produced compounds are quite reactive and present an immediate hazard to human health on exposure. For example, germanium chloride and germane (GeH4) are a liquid and gas, respectively, that can be very irritating to the eyes, skin, lungs, and throat.[86]
Future[edit]
As of the year 2000, about 15% of United States consumption of germanium was used for infrared optics technology and 50% for fiber-optics. Over the past 20 years, infrared use has consistently decreased; fiber optic demand, however, is slowly increasing. In America, 30–50% of current fiber optic lines are unused dark fiber, sparking discussion of over-production and a future reduction in demand. Worldwide, demand is increasing dramatically as countries such as China are installing fiber optic telecommunication lines throughout the country.[87]
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Jump up ^ From Greek, argyrodite means silver-containing.[6]
Jump up ^ Just as the existence of the new element had been predicted, the existence of the planet Neptune had been predicted in about 1843 by the two mathematicians John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier, using the calculation methods of celestial mechanics. They did this in attempts to explain the fact that the planet Uranus, upon very close observation, appeared to be being pulled slightly out of position in the sky.[9] James Challis started searching for it in July 1846, and he sighted this planet on September 23, 1846.[10]
Jump up ^ R. Hermann published claims in 1877 of his discovery of a new element beneath tantalum in the periodic table, which he named neptunium, after the Greek god of the oceans and seas.[11][12] However this metal was later recognized to be an alloy of the elements niobium and tantalum.[13] The name "neptunium" was much later given to the synthetic element one step past uranium in the Periodic Table, which was discovered by nuclear physics researchers in 1940.[14]
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