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I've listed this article for peer review because I want to make sure it covers everything it needs to become a FA. Thanks, Nergaal (talk) 23:21, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just gave the article a quick read. It is extensively referenced and looks fairly complete, but I'm no germanium expert! I apologize for the vagueness of the following comments because because I was not taking notes of each individual issue during this first reading. That said, the article does need copy editing. I noticed several spelling and grammar mistakes, and sentences that could be clearer and paragraphs that could be made more cohesive. There are one-sentence paragraphs that will almost surely raise complaints during the FA process. And there are the usual "unreliable" web sources. There is one webelements.com citation, one to jrank.org, and a few other .com's that I haven't examined in detail (maybe some are appropriate). Finally, the lead looks a bit disorganized. It is not clear what the topic of each paragraph is; I have the impression that organometallic compounds are mentioned too soon in the lead and for no apparent reason; the lead does not make explicit that ekasilicon is germanium. --Itub (talk) 12:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are right facts covered by the strange references need a second look, but my first search resulted in nothing. Copyediting for sentence improvment should be done, but for sure not from me, a native speeker is 10times faster. Some of the strange sentences are my fabrications, so I invite anybody to play around with them! The lead was shorter yesterday, and I added things, but not perfect enough. and the ekasilicon was also part of this addition.--Stone (talk) 13:59, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The reverences which are green are OK from my side.

  1. WebElements.com.
  2. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
  3. Elementymology & Elements Multidict
  4. Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
  5. The Manufacturer and Builder
  6. J. Prak. Chemie
  7. J. Prak. Chemie
  8. Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
  9. Comptes rendus
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  11. NY Times (1953).
  12. Computer History Museum. might be substituted by Teal, G.K. (1976). "Single crystals of germanium and silicon—Basic to the transistor and integrated circuit". IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 23 (7): 621–639.or [1]
  13. University of Cambridge.
  14. Chemical & Engineering News, American Chemical Society.
  15. Physical Reviews
  16. National Academy of Engineering.
  17. U.S. Geological Survey (2008 2008)
  18. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  19. de Gruyter
  20. Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  21. Science.jrank.org.
  22. Kristall und Technik
  23. WebElements.com
  24. Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  25. Journal of Applied Spectroscopy
  26. Chemical Communications
  27. Pure Appl. Chem.
  28. Chemical Reviews
  29. Nuclear Physics A
  30. Alpha Fusion Electrical Energy Valve Patent
  31. Ore Geology Reviews
  32. Investor.com the USGS Comodity report states the same
  33. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse:
  34. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse:
  35. Astrophysical J.
  36. Nature
  37. U.S. Geological
  38. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  39. Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals
  40. Minerals Engineering
  41. U.S. Geological Survey.
  42. Stanford Research Institute
  43. Annu. Rev. Astro. Astrophys.
  44. International Journal of Polymeric Materials
  45. III-Vs Review
  46. Kubton.com
  47. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  48. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  49. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  50. Carbon
  51. Proc. SPIE,
  52. ORTEC Manufacturer
  53. International Journal of Modern Physics E
  54. Nuclear Physics A
  55. Investigational New Drugs
  56. Anal. Chem.
  57. stopcancer.com.
  58. American Cancer Society American Cancer Society
  59. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  60. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  61. The Galaxy
  62. Harper's new monthly magazine
  63. Elementymology & Elements Multidict
  64. Elementymology & Elements Multidict. Changed to Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962. --Itub (talk) 08:09, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--Stone (talk) 07:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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Talk:Germanium/GA1#Chemistry_accuracy for comments posted by Axiosaurus. --Itub (talk) 08:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Digermane

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while the oxidation state +3 occurs only in the Ge26+ cation. The sentence and the reference to germanium III hydride seems dubiuos. The digermane which is Ge2H6 formally is germaniumIII but it is not germaniumIII hydride, C2H6 is also not carbonIII hydrid , but ethane.--Stone (talk) 06:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]