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German River Crossword Clue

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River Danube near Regensburg — Image by Leonhard Niederwimmer from Pixabay

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Element named after a German River

The element you are looking for is

Rhenium

Discovered in 1925 by three German chemists, it got its name from Latin: “Rhenus” meaning: “Rhine.” It is a very rare, silvery-white, shiny, heavy transition metal. Alloys containing rhenium are used in aircraft engines, as a catalyst in the production of unleaded gasoline, and in thermocouples. Its chemical symbol is Re, with atomic number 75.

French German River Crossword Clue

The three most likely answers to this question are either

Moselle
Rhine

or

Saar

All three rivers flow through both countries.

German River that leads to the North Sea

There are several German rivers ending in the North Sea. The largest ones are:

  • the Rhine
  • the Elbe
  • the Weser
  • the Ems
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The Rhine near Cologne — Image by TB-Photography from Pixabay

German River Crossword Clue 3 Letters

  • Ems (near Bremen)
  • Ens
  • Inn (Coming from Switzerland, it flows through Bavaria and ends in the Danube)

German Rivers with 4 Letters

There are several German rivers with 4 letters:

  • Eger
  • Elbe (flows through Hamburg)
  • Erft
  • Isar (coming from the Alps, running through Munich towards the river Danube)
  • Lech (Bavarian river ending in the Danube)
  • Lahn
  • Main
  • Oder (it rises in the Czech Republic and marks part of the German-Polish border)
  • Ruhr (a right tributary of the Rhine)
  • Spree (flows northward through Berlin into the Havel)

German Rivers with 5 Letters

  • Aller
  • Havel
  • Leine (river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It touches Hanover, which gives room for a German pun. As “Leine” is also the German word for leash, it goes “Hanover is the only city on the leash.”)
  • Mosel (it comes from France and ends in Germany in the Rhine)
  • Mulde
  • Rhine (Rhein in German, second longest river in Germany)
  • Saale
  • Werra (a tributary of the Weser river)
  • Weser

German Rivers with 6 Letters

These are the German rivers with 6 letters:

  • Danube (in German “Donau”, the longest river in Central Europe, running through 10 countries)
  • Neckar