German Shepherd

Pastor Alemán
German Shepherd
Germanicus
germanium
Germany 
Liberia

Ps32:4
"For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah."

The gates at Saalburg on the Limes Germanicus - this is about an hour north west of Frankfurt/Main

German Shepherd

Madalyna Ghenea

 Esquina en Liberia, Guanacaste

Hanau, Germany

 

Alejandra Espinosa

Germanium

Chess: "Pastor Alemán" "German Shepherd"
"Germanicus" "germanium" "Germany" "Liberia" 

Germanium 

 Germanium is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors tin and silicon. Purified germanium is a semiconductor, with an appearance most similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature. Unlike silicon, it is too reactive to be found naturally on Earth in the free (native) state.

 Winkler named the element after his country, Germany. 

 Germanium "metal" (isolated germanium) is used as a semiconductor in transistors and various other electronic devices. Historically the first decade of semiconductor electronics was based entirely on germanium. Today, however, its production for use in semiconductor electronics is a small fraction (2%) of that of ultra-high purity silicon, which has largely replaced it. Presently, germanium's major end uses are in fibre-optic systems, infrared optics and in solar cell applications. Germanium compounds are also used for polymerization catalysts and have most recently found use in the production of nanowires.