Germanium has atomic number 32 and is in Row 4, Group 14 of the Periodic Table
That means its shell configuration is 2, 8, 8, 14.
Its electron configuration is then
[tex][\text{Ge}]\underbrace{\hbox{1s$^{2}$}} _{\hbox{2}} \underbrace{\hbox{2s$^{2}$2p$^{6}$}}_{\hbox{8}}\underbrace{\hbox{3s$^{2}$3p$^{6}$}}_{\hbox{8}}\underbrace{\hbox{4s$^{2}$3d$^{10}$4p$^{2}$}}_{\hbox{14}}[/tex]
