Germanium is element 32, a metalloid of the p block, in group 14, period 4. Its ground-state configuration is [Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 4.
It was discovered in 1886, by Winkler.
Name origin: Germania, the Latin name for Germany.
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