11. Price
Price trends over the last ten years show a sharp rise, followed by a fairly steady decline until 2004 (table 5). The 1996 peak is attributable to growing consumption of germanium as a catalyst for PET polymerization, and to strong growth in the manufacture of infrared optical fibers.
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