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 ...
Mendeleev had predicted and described gallium (Ga) as ekaaluminum. In 1875, Lecoq de Boisbaudran identified gallium spectroscopically, and in the same year, extracted the free metal through ...