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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where does the rest of the world's gallium and germanium come from?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canada, Finland, Russia and the United States for Germanium.

And both are usually byproducts from zinc refining

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dumb ass me: "so germanium doesn't come from Germany?!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well it WAS first studied and named in Germany by a German Chemist