Geranium or geranium means a flowering plant, originally from Africa, commonly grown as a house or garden plant in the United States--
The red geranium looks cheerful in the window.
The geranium may survive if you put it in a pot and keep it indoors until the weather is warm.
Germanium or germanium is one of the elements of the periodic table, a metal used in transistors, fiber optics, and infrared devices--
Germanium is scarce, and used to make only a few electronic components.
Fiber optic systems use germanium.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"She bought a sterling silver brooch in the shape of a geranium, made with germanium to keep it from tarnishing."
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