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UNTIL recently, germanium was regarded as one of the rarest of metals, but recent discoveries of larger sources of its minerals lend interest to any possible applications of this element. Germanium dioxide is appreciably soluble in water and an aqueous solution of a concentration of one in 5000 has a marked inhibitory action on the growth of Bacillus coli communis.
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MORGAN, G., DREW, H. Germanium and its Derivatives. Nature 114, 194 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114194c0
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