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Gallium


Gallium Details

Gallium Symbol: Ga

Gallium Atomic Number: 31

Gallium Atomic Weight: 69.72

What is Gallium?
Soft silvery metallic element, belongs to group 13 of the periodic table. The two stable isotopes are Ga-69 and Ga-71. Eight radioactive isotopes are known, all having short half-lives. Gallium Arsenide is used as a semiconductor. Corrodes most other metals by diffusing into their lattice. First identified by Francois Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875.

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