{"id":2822,"date":"2026-05-28T03:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:36:12","slug":"gallium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/gallium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Gallium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallium is a soft, silvery metal that melts near 30\u00b0C and is important in electronic materials such as gallium arsenide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Gallium<\/strong> | It wets glass, has unusual low melting behavior for a metal and forms important semiconducting compounds with arsenic and nitrogen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Gallium<\/strong> | Recovered as a byproduct of bauxite and zinc processing, gallium is used in LEDs, high frequency electronics and solar cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Gallium<\/strong> | Stable isotopes Ga 69 and Ga 71 exist; gallium compounds are handled with standard chemical precautions and have low acute toxicity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft metal with low melting point used in semiconductors and LEDs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}