Germanium

Germanium Metalloid 15, 72.61 Objective: I am interested in conducting heat with the help of other metals. Fluorescent lighting is a field that I’m definitely interested in, especially being a phosphor for one. I would love to be working alongside Gallium and Arsenic, because I feel most comfortable there. Dmitri Mendeleev was the first to suggest that I existed in 1871 based on gaps in his Periodic Table of Elements. I was officially discovered by the German chemist Clemens Winkler in the mineral argyrodite in 1886. Today, I’m mostly gotten from the smelting of zinc ores and from the byproducts of burning certain types of coal. I am commercially obtained from the dusts of smelters processing zinc ores, as well as recovered from combustion by-products of certain coals. I have many uses today, and have developed more and more over the years.

Experience and Skills: What I’m really known for best is my use in semiconductors, because that it what I’m most commonly used for. However, I’m also good at being a part of infrared prisms, reflectors, wide-angle lenses, and dentistry, and I’ve been a part of all of these in the past. Not to mention, one of my special skills is detecting gamma radiation as well. Now, I’d like to explore my role as a phosphor in fluorescent lamps at a deeper level.

Awards: I have been given the award of Most Useful Material in a Bracelet for my use in Germanium Health Bracelets. Germanium health bracelets are equipped with both a positive and negative pole that works to counteract the imbalance created by emissions from things such as cell phones and other wireless technology, and thus reduce the harmful effects of modern living. I’m at work protecting humans every day. I’m also found in different forms, and as inorganic germanium salts and novel organogermanium compounds. I have been used as a dietary supplement, and have received honor and credit for it. In some countries, I’m used as a nutritional supplement due to my alleged immunomodulatory effects or as a health-producing elixir. I am helping humans out across the board.

References: Arsenic ([Ar] 4s23d104p3) and Gallium ([Ar] 4s23d104p1): Any time that I have been mixed with them, we’ve been used as a transistor element in thousands of electronic applications. We’ve only ever worked well together.

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