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Title: How to get gallium?
Post by: olekExE 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?

Title: Re: How to get gallium?
Post by: chenbeier 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.,

Title: Re: How to get gallium?
Post by: Enthalpy on October 01, 2018, 07:07:10 PM

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gallium

Title: Re: How to get gallium?
Post by: P 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.