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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)

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.

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)

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

See also

Talk:Germanium/GA1#Chemistry_accuracy for comments posted by Axiosaurus. --Itub (talk) 08:16, 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)