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Germanium

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 * A script has been used to generate a semi-automated review of the article for issues relating to grammar and house style; it can be found on the automated peer review page for September 2008.

This peer review discussion has been closed. 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)

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)


 * 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)

The reverences which are green are OK from my side.

--Stone (talk) 07:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
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 * 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 or
 * 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)

Digermane
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)