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Offline olekExE

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How to get gallium?
« on: September 28, 2018, 04:34:42 PM »
Is there any way of seperating gallium from galinstan? And if there isn't is there another way of getting gallium?

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Re: How to get gallium?
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2018, 02:10:28 PM »
This will be difficult. Probably dissolve in nitric acid, seperate the tin dioxide. Figure out to seperate indium from gallium  and do an electrolysis later on.,

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Re: How to get gallium?
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2018, 04:54:57 AM »
I bought some recently off an amateur chemist from another website forum I go to. It worked out a tiny bit more than from Amazon with the delivery from the US. Amazon does seem to be the cheapest place I can find for it as Enthalpy suggests above - has to be cheaper than making it. 
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