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
• 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
• The researchers created a blend of gallium, iron, nickel, and silicon—then fitted it inside a graphite chamber that rapidly heated then cooled the metal, all while exposing it to a mixture of methane and hydrogen gas.
  — Jasmine Li, Fortune, 1 May 2024
• China’s measures on graphite, gallium and germanium has made the prospect of similar measures on rare earths more real, hastening the need for an alternative to Chinese supply.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024