Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
GERMANIUM
germanium, Ge, atomic number
(noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
germanium (countable and uncountable, plural germaniums)
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group.
(countable) An atom of this element.
Source: Wiktionary
Ger*ma"ni*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. Germania Germany.] (Chem.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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