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Offline pcentauri

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melting gallium spoon in hot water
« on: December 18, 2010, 07:17:54 AM »
I came across this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbYiO5BRYk of a spoon made of gallium metal melting in hot water. So there's ANOTHER use for gallium besides semiconductors  ;D
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Re: melting gallium spoon in hot water
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2010, 03:04:41 PM »
Quote from: pcentauri on December 18, 2010, 07:17:54 AM
So there's ANOTHER use for gallium besides semiconductors  ;D

I am to bet that your advanced inorganic chemistry textbook can cite many other applications of Gallium: alloys, energy storage, neutrino detection, radio-diagnose...
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Re: melting gallium spoon in hot water
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2011, 09:53:40 PM »
This gallium alloys melts at -19°C:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan
without some inconvenient aspects of Hg nor NaK.
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