Nitestar DMI Vehicle Distance Measurer. Note: On some vehicles - specifically trucks, the OBDII adapter will not report the proper speed to the DMI display, resulting in lower than actual distances measured. For the vehicles on which this problem has been observed, the distance recorded will be less than 10% of actual.
It is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors tin and silicon. Purified germanium is a semiconductor, with an appearance most similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature. Unlike silicon, it is too reactive to be found naturally on Earth in the free (native) state.
From 1945 to 1949,the demand for electronic uses resulted in substantial growthof the germanium industry and higher prices for the metal.After 1953, germanium prices started to declineprogressively and, by 1966, bottomed out at $175 perkilogram of metal, the lowest price ever quoted.5 Annual Average Germanium Price (Dollars per kilogram) 05001,0001,5002,0002,5001959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 YEARDOLLARS 1992 dollarsCurrent dollars Ge Germanium by Robert D. Brown, Jr.