Word Meanings - GERMANIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.

• Metaldehyde
  A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
• Metallizing
  of Metallize
• Whitewood
  The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
• Metalmen
  of Metalman
• WHITEFLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• Silvering
  of Silver
• WHITESLAVING
  The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• Silversides
  Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailo
• Discover
  To uncover.
• Symbolizing
  of Symbolize
• Elementariness
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• Whitebait
  The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
• Generally
  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
• White-foot
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Metalepses
  of Metalepsis
• Whiteside
  The golden-eye.
• Metallize
  To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
• Whitewort
  Wild camomile.
• Metalman
  A worker in metals.

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