How to Use gallium in a Sentence

gallium

noun
  • Tiny drops of gallium can be stacked high on top of one another.
    — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2022
  • That matchup means the gallium nitride grown atop it has few defects.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2018
  • This time the metal in question was gallium, which is toxic to cells.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This became known as the gallium anomaly.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • From there, the current flowed from the cold side of the gallium to the hot side, then back into the mercury, and so on, in a loop.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024
  • This means, in reality, that one batch of fly ash could be full of something like gallium, say, while the next has next to none.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 May 2026
  • Current looped up through the mercury from the hot side of the chamber to the cold, then crossed over the interface into the gallium.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024
  • In spring, expect to come across dandelions, watercress, day lily, gallium and more.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • This is exactly what the researchers observed in gallium phosphide wires.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The Berkeley team instead used liquid gallium as a medium.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But just imagine skaters doing triple axels on a silvery mirror gallium surface.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 31 Jan. 2019
  • The range was pretty high, from less than a year for gallium and selenium to nearly 200 years for gold.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
  • Prices for gallium, germanium and graphite also have mostly risen.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • In lab tests, the team cultured healthy bone cells alongside osteosarcoma cells, and treated them with the gallium bioactive glass.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Because these gallium nitride chips are smaller than their silicon counterparts, a lot more can be put on a single wafer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Once everything cooled, the metallic crystals formed but the gallium remained liquid.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Sapphire is used because its crystal lattice matches that of gallium nitride pretty well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The researchers poured dense liquid mercury into the outer cylinder, then topped it with a layer of lighter liquid gallium.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024
  • Some heavier elements like gallium and bromine need something more, such as a supernova.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Although gallium is present in the waste stream, its concentration is very low, at around 100 parts per million.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026
  • Bauxite is a source of gallium, which is essential to the electronics industry.
    — Christopher R. O'Dea, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Their production requires heavy use of critical and rare earth minerals, such as lithium and gallium.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Researchers took gallium and embedded it with magnetic particles to create a robot that can melt and move.
    — CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Most of China’s gallium is used, both inside and outside the country, to craft gallium arsenide wafers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Ames Lab researchers will work to design a heat-stable, efficient resin that is selective for gallium.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026
  • That said, the discovery centers around a new crystal form of gallium oxide called kappa-gallium oxide.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That includes gallium, an element used in light-emitting diodes and semiconductors for cellphones.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Every cell contains a gallium-iron composite that can switch between solid and liquid states at room temperature.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The gallium anomaly remains similarly tough to explain away.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • At present, some 94% of the world’s gallium and about 60% of the world’s supply of germanium come from China.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 July 2023

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