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Partially inspired by MetaZen’s Four Directions Series :)

North:

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East:

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South:

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West:

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This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D

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The answer is

GERMANIUM.

To the north we have

SIL+LIC+ON (SIL is second half of BRASIL, ON is ONE minus E);

to the east we have

ARS+ENI+C (ARS is the ISO 4217 code for the Argentinian peso);

to the south we have

TI+I(G)+N (T.I., left half of one version of Instagram logo; nitrogen);

to the west we have

GAL + LI + IUM (one gal is 1 cm/s^2, a unit I'd never heard of before; we need the A because the second picture appears to be of lithium floating in oil).

And

in between these in the periodic table we find GERMANIUM.

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