Germanate

Okay kiddo, let me explain germanate to you.

Do you know what a recipe is? You follow a recipe to make something tasty like a cake or cookies.

Well, scientists also follow a recipe to make something called germanate. Germanate is a type of material made up of atoms of germanium, oxygen, and other elements.

Scientists mix different amounts of these elements together in a certain way, like following a recipe, to make germanate.

And just like how you can change the ingredients and amounts in a recipe to make it taste differently, scientists can change the amounts and types of elements in their recipe to make different types of germanates.

Germanates are really interesting because they can be used in things like electronics and telecommunications to help make devices work better.