Gallium - GA
Gallium was an element whose existence was predicted by Mendeleev in 1871. He predicted that the then unknown element gallium should resemble aluminum in its properties. He suggested that the name ekaaluminium. He predicted that the element would have an atomic mass of 68, its formula would be Ea2O3, the gravity would be 5.9, and that it would be discovered spectroscopically. All these properties were very accurate to Gallium’s, which I will explain later on. In the 1800s, French Chemist, Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaurdan (1838-19120 set out to find the metals that were missing in Mendeleeves table, in between aluminum and indium, and found Gallium in 1875. He suspected that he was on the right track when he discovered new spectral lines from samples of the zinc mineral, sphalerite. Sphalerite a zinc sulfide mineral which was once called galena inanis, useless lead. This included many metallic impurities, including gallium. Months later he isolated the pure element by electrolyzing a mixture of hydroxide and potassium hydroxide. Gallium is a soft metal. It is the only metal, except for mercury, caesium, and rubidium, which ca
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