How to Use gallium in a Sentence

gallium

noun
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  • Tiny drops of gallium can be stacked high on top of one another.
    — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • Bauxite is the main source of the mineral gallium which is used to produce the LED backlighting that make our phones shine bright in the night.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • That's because the liquid gallium TIM allowed Sony to get the same cooling performance from a cheaper heat sink.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The release of the latest GaN 3 standard for gallium nitride chargers has boosted the market.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • Watch these two science sadists inject a Stretch Armstrong doll with melted gallium.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2020
  • Most of China’s gallium is used, both inside and outside the country, to craft gallium arsenide wafers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In spring, expect to come across dandelions, watercress, day lily, gallium and more.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • France also appears twice on the periodic table in the form of francium and gallium (from Gaul) and its capital city, Paris, gets a mention (in the form of lutetium).
    — Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2016
  • Officials told us it's basically the equal of a indium gallium solder on the new chip.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 June 2019
  • This is exactly what the researchers observed in gallium phosphide wires.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Once everything cooled, the metallic crystals formed but the gallium remained liquid.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Bauxite is a source of gallium, which is essential to the electronics industry.
    — Christopher R. O'Dea, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • In the future, the gallium robots could help assemble and repair hard-to-reach circuits or act as a universal screw by melting and reforming into a screw socket, the team says.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Global gallium prices jumped 27% this week as buyers reacted to China’s move to control exports of the niche metal used in an array of high-tech industries.
    — Mark Burton, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • In this test, the researchers used gallium, but a real a human stomach has a temperature of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit—higher than the metal’s melting point.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The patent describes how a laser diode can be configured to emit pulses of laser light using a circuit that includes an inductor and a gallium nitride transistor.
    — Mark Harris, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Researchers took gallium and embedded it with magnetic particles to create a robot that can melt and move.
    — CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Gallium installs easily using the chrx command-line utility as a dual-boot system side by side with Chrome OS.
    — J.m. Porup, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
  • Miners extract the material from surface and underground deposits and the mineral gallium is a byproduct of the process.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2022
  • But just imagine skaters doing triple axels on a silvery mirror gallium surface.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 31 Jan. 2019
  • Their production requires heavy use of critical and rare earth minerals, such as lithium and gallium.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Some heavier elements like gallium and bromine need something more, such as a supernova.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2019
  • On Monday, China placed restrictions on exports of germanium and gallium, two metals used to make chips.
    — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Only 2% of the charger market today consists of devices made with gallium nitride chips, versus 98% for silicon chips.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • It’s made from a mixture of magnetic materials including neodymium, iron, and boron, and the liquid metal gallium.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Many of the most tangible things made possible by gallium nitride, also known as GaN, are happening in power electronics.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 17 July 2021
  • That includes gallium, an element used in light-emitting diodes and semiconductors for cellphones.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020

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