It doesn’t hurt or help our body in any way, and most likely comes from our water, or there might be small traces of it on our fruits or vegetables. So if you just stopped here, with this tiny bit of gallium that you swallowed and put into your system, you’d be fine.

Gallium is liquid at body temperature, melting point 85.58°F (29.76°C). It is non-toxic, apparently. If the local temperature is above the melting point of gallium, one could certainly swim in it. Most of the body would be above the gallium level.

Cancer Hazard * According to the information presently available to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Gallium has not been tested for its ability to cause cancer in animals.

Gallium is a silvery metal and element number 31 on the Periodic Table, and it melts at 85.6 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s a temperature low enough for gallium to melt in your hand — and unlike the liquid metal mercury, gallium is safe to play with, according to chemists.

GaAs is a widely used semiconductor material and the available data indicate it can be toxic in animals. Acute and chronic toxicity to the lung, reproductive organs, and kidney are associated with exposure to GaAs or InAs.

Gallium is a soft, silvery metal used primarily in electronic circuits, semiconductors and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It is also useful in high-temperature thermometers, barometers, pharmaceuticals and nuclear medicine tests. The element has no known biological value.

The crystal structure of gallium is orthorhombic. Gallium does not react with water at temperatures up to 100 °C (212 °F) but reacts slowly with hydrochloric and other mineral acids to give the gallium ion, Ga3+.

Gallium is a rare element on earth, with a content of 19 ppm in the continental crust, its abundance is comparable to that of lithium and lead. It does not occur in elemental form, but only in bound form, mainly in aluminum, zinc or germanium ores.

Gallium attacks many metals including Aluminum & Steel by diffusing into the grain boundaries making them extremely brittle. Gallium easily alloys with many metals in low quantities.

Gallium melts at room temperature and has one of the largest liquid ranges of any metal. At room temperature, gallium metal is unreactive towards air and water due to formation of a passive protective oxide layer.

There are 35 metals that are of concern for us because of residential or occupational exposure, out of which 23 are heavy metals: antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, platinum, silver, tellurium, thallium, tin, uranium, vanadium.

This series of photos shows gallium being used as an adhesive to grip a glass sphere. So if a drop of liquid gallium is introduced between two objects and then cooled to less than 30°C, the gallium layer solidifies and sticks the two objects together.

Once oxides have been removed from the substrate surface, most liquid metals will wet most metallic surfaces. Similar to indium, gallium and gallium-containing alloys have the ability to wet to many non-metallic surfaces such as glass and quartz. Gently rubbing the alloy into the surface may help induce wetting.

hermanntrude. gallium and indium in the molten state and also galinstan all wet glass, but not plastics…

Where is gallium found on Earth? Gallium is not found in its elemental form on Earth, but it is found in minerals and ores in the Earth’s crust. Most gallium is produced as a byproduct of mining other metals including aluminum (bauxite) and zinc (sphalerite).

Gallium is a bit of an acquired taste. It’s got a slippery, sour-savory flavor that’s best tolerated by pairing it with something else — which would be fine, if it would actually pair with anything else.

Gallium easily forms alloys with most metals and has been used to create low melting alloys. Gallium is used as a doping material for semiconductors and has been used to produce solid-state items like transistors and light emitting diodes. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) can produce laser light directly from electricity.