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Who discovered Germanium?

Jul 8,2026
The existence and properties of Germanium had been predicted in 1871 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who called it "eka-silicon". In 1886, German chemist Clemens Winkler isolated the element from the rare mineral argyrodite in Freiberg, Germany, and named it after his home country.

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