{"id":2823,"date":"2026-08-07T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:42:54","slug":"germanium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/germanium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Germanium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germanium is a lustrous, gray metalloid with semiconductor properties historically important in transistors and modern infrared optics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Germanium<\/strong> | It has semiconducting band structure, forms stable oxides and is chemically similar to silicon in many respects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Germanium<\/strong> | Found in trace amounts in ores, germanium is used in fiber optics, infrared detectors, solar cells and semiconductor applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Germanium<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Ge 70 to Ge 76; germanium compounds are of low toxicity but fine dusts require handling controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor metalloid used in electronics and infrared optics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}