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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about germanium. Discover this shiny metal named after Germany.

Germanium can form a compound with hydrogen, GeH4, germane. It is much more reactive than CH4. What does this tell us about Ge-H bonds compared with C-H bonds?

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